discussion: emacs clojure-mode differences

[martinklepsch]

Hey. I've been using Emacs for a while and I really like how it highlights things most notably:

• The namespace section of symbols is colored
• most functions are not colored in any special way
• macros and special forms are colored consistently (i.e. fn, def(n), ns, case, cond, if-let ...)

I'm just dipping my toes in Atom but I'm liking it so far. Now I wonder if these changes would be something you're interested in and if so if you have any pointers how to achieve them :)

I can probably figure out the grammar bits but how do I know what ends up being colored in what way?

[martinklepsch]

macros and special forms are colored consistently (i.e. fn, def(n), ns, case, cond, if-let ...)

This could be achieved quite easily by changing this line to keyword.control.clojure.

most functions are not colored in any special way

I guess that's more a matter of the theme that's being used.

The namespace section of symbols is colored

This is possible for forms like (= ns/var 1) but not for function calls as (ns/var 1). In head position the symbol is not treated specially and is just registered as entity.name.function.clojure.

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I guess the solution to all of these points will be a mixture of extending themes and adjusting the grammer for more explicit namespaced-var parsing.