spacemacs/contrib/colors

Colors contribution layer for Spacemacs

Table of Contents

• Colors contribution layer for Spacemacs
  • Description
  • Install
    • Enable rainbow-identifiers
  • Key bindings
    • Rainbow Identifiers
    • Rainbow Mode

Description

This layer colors your life with:

• rainbow identifiers
• rainbow mode

rainbow identifiers mode will colorize each variables and functions with an almost unique color. The keywords and the declaration of function colors are disabled in order to make the colorized variables and functions stand out.

rainbow mode displays strings representing colors with the color they represent as background.

Install

To use this contribution add it to your ~/.spacemacs

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(colors)
  "List of contribution to load."
)

Enable rainbow-identifiers

To enable the package rainbow-identifiers set the variable colors-enable-rainbow-identifiers to t:

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(
  (colors :variables
          colors-enable-rainbow-identifiers t))
  "List of contribution to load."
)

Key bindings

The prefix associated with colors is C.

Rainbow Identifiers

rainbow-identifiers mode can be toggled on and off with:

<SPC> t C i

Note that the toggle is local to the current buffer.

The saturation and lightness of identifier colors can be adjusted live with the micro-state:

Key Binding	Description
<SPC> C i s	initiate change saturation mini-mode
<SPC> C i l	initiate change lightness mini-mode
+	increase the saturation or lightness
-	decrease the saturation or lightness
=	reset the saturation or lightness
Any other key	leave the change mini-mode

Rainbow Mode

rainbow-mode mode can be toggled on and off with:

<SPC> t C c

Note that the toggle is local to the current buffer.