ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode

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Emacs minor mode to highlight each source code identifier uniquely based on its name

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2014-01-25 · latest 2025-10-15

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…Original idea from here: https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e One impl for Emacs: https://github.com/ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode I still admire you Niki.
comment by ferd · 2025-10-15 · in Getting syntax highlighting wrong
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color-identifiers-mode: Emacs minor mode to highlight each identifier uniquely
story by tosh · 2025-06-18 · 0 comments
…to and prefer this way of highlighting. Personally I use color-identifiers-mode[0] for Emacs. [0] https://github.com/ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode
comment by aquariusDue · 2024-11-10 · in Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output
…for a given identifier throughout the code to better aid picking out how a given item is used. https://github.com/ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode Inspired by this post https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e
comment by michaelmrose · 2021-09-12 · in A case against syntax highlighting (2007)
…Also, I always wondered if something like this would work well: https://github.com/ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode
comment by pjtr · 2017-01-08 · in What science says about naming in programming
…Emacs[1], which does just that. It supports a bunch of languages and seems reasonably popular. [1]: https://github.com/ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode
comment by tikhonj · 2016-08-25 · in KDevelop 5.0.0 release
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Color Identifiers Mode for Emacs
story by etrain · 2014-01-25 · 0 comments