Re: rainbow-mode

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

 > I'm not quite sure what you mean to say here.  Is it "this is something
 > that so many people want in Emacs that it's been partially reimplemented
 > half a dozen times"?

IIRC, the most recent discussion concluded that none of the half-
implemented modes is good enough, especially given the nice features
in the other half-implemented modes, and nobody stepped up to the
plate to merge them, document the result, and make sure the result
conforms to coding standards etc.