Eltbus is subtle

Guiding principles

Don’t distract

• Extremely subtle colours

Let syntax-highlighting do some work for you

• Syntax highlighting is distracting, but it does serve a purpose.
• Cryptic errors arise from unclosed comments and unterminated strings.

Important things stand out

• Highlighting Keywords, types and builtins provides a mental note to self that you haven’t mistyped
• giving a different color/formatting style to links helps too.

Unimportant things dont

• Comments are often useless when coding
• Doc-comments are slightly more usefu
  • These stand out a little more than normal comments

A customary screenshot

Screenshot showing highlighting for C

Get involved

• Emacs has several font-faces. You can see this using
• If you are on a particular word and wonder what highlighting it uses, use
• If you feel eltbus is doing a bad job with it, add another entry for it and send me a PR. If it is subtle enough, I will pull