Neil Van Dyke wrote at 06/20/2011 11:20 PM:
Anyone have opinions on DrRacket's yellow default color for comments?
Is it OK, great, lousy?
If you want to email me directly, I will summarize responses.
I've decided to have the new Emacs mode mimic DrRacket's yellow comments
(comments colored like rude statements in an otherwise pristine landscape).
Summary of responses:
* "I feel like [the yellow default color for comments] draws unnecessary
attention to them; they are not that important."
* One person said that the yellow comments in DrRacket print too lightly
on their black&white printer. I didn't know people printed code
listings anymore, but I'll see about having Emacs map the faces
differently when printing.
* One person really disliked the special coloring that Quack does for
three-semicolon comments. That was actually for my old Javadoc-like
inline documentation. I won't be supporting that old thing in the new
Emacs mode.
* Two people asked to do colors in an Emacs-idiomatic way: one person
asked for Emacs color-theme support, and the other asked for a
Quack-like choice between using DrRacket colors and using Emacs
font-lock colors. Currently, there are 18 deffaces, set to mimic
DrRacket, and that's probably how it will be in the initial release.
Later, I might see about a convenience for setting those based on the
user's font-lock colors, but the default will remain to mimic DrRacket.
* It's orange, not yellow. (See previous reference to liver condition.)
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