Comments on: Making CamelCase Readable with Glasses-Mode

By: A couple of noteworthy links | The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

A couple of noteworthy links | The Lone C++ Coder's Blog — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:41:14 +0000

[...] Making CamelCase readable with glasses-mode – I’m not a big fan of CamelCase, but I must say this minor mode makes a big difference in readability. [...]

By: mickey

mickey — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:50:09 +0000

glasses-mode is one of those crazy inventions you’d only ever see in Emacs. It may not be the world’s most useful feature, but it highlights the power and flexibility of Emacs as a text editor.

By: Ruben Berenguel

Ruben Berenguel — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:03:24 +0000

Looks like this works as visual-line-mode, the new virtual line breaker for emacs 23. Have you tried it? Much better than fill-paragraph or autofill-mode: it generates virtual new lines that are not saved to the buffer.

I don’t program using CamelCase (well, I do, but with very short function names), so I don’t have any use for this… For now. Most emacs utilities that seem like not useful at first end up being pretty useful once you get the “aha!” moment

Cheers,

Ruben
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By: mickey

mickey — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:00:11 +0000

Indeed. Overlays in Emacs are the bee’s knees. I’d never use glasses-mode myself but at least the option is there for people who want to use it.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:22:53 +0000

> The changes are not permanent and Emacs will keep track
> of the virtual separators and ensure they are never
> accidentally saved to disk.

In case that still sounds scary to anyone (it certainly does to me I thought I’d point out that the separators do not actually exist in the buffer text at all, so it’s not possible to save them accidentally or otherwise.

This is achieved with overlays, which modifies the visual appearance of the buffer without actually changing the text.