alphapapa/prism.el
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Disperse Lisp forms (and other languages) into a spectrum of colors by depth
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2020-07-21 · latest 2025-10-17
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…Where each scope or similar is a different colour. An example of this is prism mode in Emacs https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el Although some of the IntelliJ things would be useful. Switching between modes is probably needed.
comment by pasc1878 · 2025-10-17 · in Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020) -
I have seen it done with foreground colours: https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el I think I once saw a project turning Scheme into a visual block-based representation, but I can't find it again.
comment by tmtvl · 2025-01-20 · in All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly -
I've found rainbow block-level highlighting to be even better: https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el
comment by rmckayfleming · 2022-04-22 · in Common Lisp Resources -
There is one for emacs. Could be good inspo if someone wanted to make a VSCode version. https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el
comment by srcreigh · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster -
…this (maybe beta). I can't remember the name of it and Google is failing me. EDIT: finally found it https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el
comment by srcreigh · 2021-02-22 · in Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools -
…the "OG" - https://github.com/seanirby/rainbow-blocks-bg - rainbow blocks but background style - https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el - Prism, a slightly more "friendly" rainbow blocks implementation
comment by minikomi · 2020-07-21 · in Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel