Re: Fw: Re: slight amendment to html_meta

Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> Thu, 15 May 2014 08:44:30 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
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On 05/14/2014 10:10 PM, Anne Ogborn wrote:
> What's there already is fine. I just mean I couldn't find a way to
> add syntax coloring for expected modes without it becoming too much
> tootie frootie. The explanations are fine. I meant that if you make
> the syntax coloring too complex and convoluted, it just appears
> random and is ignored.

That is most likely a fair point. I was not planning to add modes in
general, just the fact that an argument is a `real' meta argument (i.e.,
:,0-9,^,// without distinguishing these visually, but we can show the
actual specifier in the status line). Such arguments are rather rare, so
it should not convolute too much. It should be something subtle, such as
a light (barely visible) background colour (which is also the only thing
that will work orthogonally with the other colour schemes).

The only downside with barely visual backgrounds is that they tend to be
much more visible on one device compared to another :-(

	Cheers --- Jan