Marco Baringer writes:
for those of you who don't follow c.l.l (which is probaly a good idea) i commited William Bland's patch[1]. see the ChangeLog for details.
Yeah, that's pretty cool, but there are two major annoyances with it: * It tries to do it's thing even in the REPL. This seems insane; you only want to do this in source files, IMHO
* It incessantly nags you by displaying "Setting up face" in the echo area. If I've turned on this feature, I can SEE that it's highlighting, I don't really need it to TELL me as well. ;-)
* the default color of the overlay, "yellow", is pretty awful on a "dark" background (I use color-mode-robin-hood, if you want to see what that's like). I notice that both dark and light are currently set to yellow, so maybe you guys just haven't made up your mind yet. I set the face of SLIME-DISPLAY-EDIT-FACE to "sienna", in my setup. YMMV.
* If you can detect that the minor mode highlight-changes-mode is active, you might be better off simply using the faces used therein; (which are highlight-changes-1 highlight-changes-2 etc.)
Great work, guys!
--ap