Details and Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

First of all, many thanks to Alice Hartley and the elves at Digitool who have created MCL and Fred, and additional thanks for generously making 5.2 an open source project. MCL is a remarkable achievement and the best Lisp development environment.

Thanks, also, to Terje Norderhaug, JJA (whose name I do not know), Shannon Spires, and Gary King.
Special thanks to Octave Popescu, who reported bugs, made suggestions and provided a prototype of the defStyle macro.

Shareware

If you decide to use this utility on a permanent basis, please make a $5.00 contribution to either the World Wildlife Fund. You can do this online.

Backgrounds

Dark backgrounds are nice, but they tend to make reflections in the monitor more noticable. Also remember that Fred does not save background color information. If you style a file using a non-white background color and then distribute the file, the background color stays at home.

Things to do

Unmatched quotes inside of sharp-stroke comments cause a problem. If you need to use an unmatched quote, represent it as a character constant: #\".

This is a bug to be aware of. Color-coded does not change the capitalization inside string or comments. It does, however, change the capitalization of all other code to the state defined by *generic-text-style*. This is usually lowercase. Note that character constants will be changed to lower case. If that will change the semantics of your code, you should obviously not style the file.

If you have suggestions drop me a line, using the contact information at www.clairvaux.info.