Alternative way to "pick" a color
Alex Kost
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| make-color.el | %!s(int64=10) %!d(string=hai) anos |
README.md
About
Make-color provides a convenient (IMHO) way for finding a suitable
color by updating a color of some text with keyboard.
Basically, you press r/g/b/... keys and see how a probing region of text changes its foreground/background color (red/green/blue/... components).
Installation
Manual
- Put
make-color.elinto any directory fromload-pathor if you prefer to keep it in a separate directory:
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/make-color-dir")
- Add autoloads for the main functions:
(autoload 'make-color "make-color" nil t)
(autoload 'make-color-switch-to-buffer "make-color" nil t)
MELPA
The package can be installed from MELPA (with M-x
package-install or M-x list-packages).
Usage
Shortly: M-x make-color and press
r/R/g/G/... keys (see
below).
More detailed description:
- (Optional) Select any region (it will be used as a sample, so you may want to select a colorful text, for example a piece of elisp code).
M-x make-colororM-x make-color-switch-to-bufferto make a buffer inmake-color-mode.- (Optional if step 1 was omitted) Select a text a color of which you want to change and press n (stands for "new probing region").
- Press keys to change a color of the probing region (see below).
MakeColor buffer is not read-only, so you can "cut and paste" (I mean "kill and yank") text there as usual, as well as undo the changes.
Key bindings
Key bindings in make-color-mode (can be explored with C-h m):
- r/R, g/G, b/B – decrease/increase red, green, blue components (RGB model)
- c/C, m/M, y/Y – decrease/increase cyan, magenta, yellow components (RGB model)
- h/H, s/S, l/L – decrease/increase hue, saturation, luminance (HSL model)
- RET – change current color (prompt for a value)
- n – set new probing region
- SPC – highlight current probing region; with arg switch to the specified region
- N – switch to the next probing region
- P – switch to the previous probing region
- p – change a step of components shifting
- f/d, t – switch between changing foreground/background color
- k – put current color into kill-ring
- F/D – put foreground/background color at point into kill-ring
- u – undo