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by jackowayed 5928 days ago
It would be really cool if you indicated what parts of the file you're editing at the moment. Maybe like underlining all of them? I know you could just change it to some crazy color and see what changes, but then if you want it right back where it was, you can never get it perfectly back.

Also, I second the request for being able to paste in a config to base it off of (mostly so that if I make a config, then decide I love it except for 1 or 2 things but want to use your editor instead of messing with the color codes, I can use your editor to tweak it).

It's awesome as it is, though. Nice work :)

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Visual Studio has a sidebar that's grey for untouched lines. On lines that you edit, this sidebar turns yellow, and it turns green when you save and red for errors.
Yeah, I thought about something like that (assuming I know what you mean), but since this is about parts of lines, not lines, I thought underlining would work better (especially since basically every line has keywords).

It's still a little difficult to indicate the minibuffer background, the frame border, etc, but I think those names are a little more obvious, and there's fewer of them.