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 -
…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