gratitude

Stephan Renatus 2026-01-28T13:34:54.984709Z

Thank you to @tonsky for the Alabaster theme! I've been using it for so long now, I don't want to code without. gratitude

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Harold 2026-01-28T13:37:10.740069Z

Can you share a link?

danieroux 2026-01-28T13:44:25.390349Z

Same! https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting

Stephan Renatus 2026-01-28T14:05:35.622409Z

the only theme I like more is flatwhite on helix; but I'm using vscode these days, so 🤷

Harold 2026-01-28T16:39:55.428319Z

as usual, clear thinking w/ interesting ideas, thanks for this.

Gent Krasniqi 2026-01-29T00:46:16.264779Z

I have also always thought that most themes 'highlight' everything, and barely anything remains in the 'default' (black on a light theme, or white on a dark theme). So recently I've tried another approach, where as the article says I use bold and italics for a few things, and leave another role for font-color entirely: nesting! (via prism.el in emacs) Rainbow-delimiters never helped in lisps, not as much as code indentation anyway. What prism.el adds is perfect clarity even in cases where a child sexp/form is 5-6 lines below indented by 1 character only (which is sometimes tricky in lisps to tell if its a nested sexp or sibling sexp).

Gent Krasniqi 2026-01-29T07:59:51.581479Z

Though I read the full article this morning, and recommending not to distinguish language keywords is one thing I clearly disagree on.