Here's another version of git-blame.el that automatically tries to create a sensible list of colors to use for both light and dark backgrounds. Plus a few minor fixes. To use: 1) Load into emacs: M-x load-file RET git-blame.el RET 2) Open a git-controlled file 3) Blame: M-x git-blame-mode ;;; git-blame.el ;; David Kågedal (defun color-scale (l) (let* ((colors ()) r g b) (setq r l) (while r (setq g l) (while g (setq b l) (while b (push (concat "#" (car r) (car g) (car b)) colors) (pop b)) (pop g)) (pop r)) colors)) (defvar git-blame-dark-colors (color-scale '("00" "04" "08" "0c" "10" "14" "18" "1c" "20" "24" "28" "2c" "30" "34" "38" "3c"))) (defvar git-blame-light-colors (color-scale '("c0" "c4" "c8" "cc" "d0" "d4" "d8" "dc" "e0" "e4" "e8" "ec" "f0" "f4" "f8" "fc"))) (defvar git-blame-ancient-color "dark green") (defvar git-blame-overlays nil) (defvar git-blame-cache nil) (defvar git-blame-mode nil) (make-variable-buffer-local 'git-blame-mode) (push (list 'git-blame-mode " blame") minor-mode-alist) (defun git-blame-mode (&optional arg) (interactive "P") (if arg (setq git-blame-mode (eq arg 1)) (setq git-blame-mode (not git-blame-mode))) (make-local-variable 'git-blame-overlays) (make-local-variable 'git-blame-colors) (make-local-variable 'git-blame-cache) (let ((bgmode (cdr (assoc 'background-mode (frame-parameters))))) (if (eq bgmode 'dark) (setq git-blame-colors git-blame-dark-colors) (setq git-blame-colors git-blame-light-colors))) (if git-blame-mode (git-blame-run) (git-blame-cleanup))) (defun git-blame-run () (let* ((display-buf (current-buffer)) (blame-buf (get-buffer-create (concat " git blame for " (buffer-name)))) (proc (start-process "git-blame" blame-buf "git" "blame" "--incremental" (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)))) (mapcar 'delete-overlay git-blame-overlays) (setq git-blame-overlays nil) (setq git-blame-cache (make-hash-table :test 'equal)) (with-current-buffer blame-buf (erase-buffer) (make-local-variable 'git-blame-file) (make-local-variable 'git-blame-current) (setq git-blame-file display-buf) (setq git-blame-current nil)) (set-process-filter proc 'git-blame-filter) (set-process-sentinel proc 'git-blame-sentinel))) (defun git-blame-cleanup () "Remove all blame properties" (mapcar 'delete-overlay git-blame-overlays) (setq git-blame-overlays nil) (let ((modified (buffer-modified-p))) (remove-text-properties (point-min) (point-max) '(point-entered nil)) (set-buffer-modified-p modified))) (defun git-blame-sentinel (proc status) ;;(kill-buffer (process-buffer proc)) (message "git blame finished")) (defvar in-blame-filter nil) (defun git-blame-filter (proc str) (save-excursion (set-buffer (process-buffer proc)) (goto-char (process-mark proc)) (insert-before-markers str) (goto-char 0) (unless in-blame-filter (let ((more t) (in-blame-filter t)) (while more (setq more (git-blame-parse))))))) (defun git-blame-parse () (cond ((looking-at "\\([0-9a-f]\\{40\\}\\) \\([0-9]+\\) \\([0-9]+\\) \\([0-9]+\\)\n") (let ((hash (match-string 1)) (src-line (string-to-number (match-string 2))) (res-line (string-to-number (match-string 3))) (num-lines (string-to-number (match-string 4)))) (setq git-blame-current (git-blame-new-commit hash src-line res-line num-lines))) (delete-region (point) (match-end 0)) t) ((looking-at "filename \\(.+\\)\n") (let ((filename (match-string 1))) (git-blame-add-info "filename" filename)) (delete-region (point) (match-end 0)) t) ((looking-at "\\([a-z-]+\\) \\(.+\\)\n") (let ((key (match-string 1)) (value (match-string 2))) (git-blame-add-info key value)) (delete-region (point) (match-end 0)) t) ((looking-at "boundary\n") (setq git-blame-current nil) (delete-region (point) (match-end 0)) t) (t nil))) (defun git-blame-new-commit (hash src-line res-line num-lines) (save-excursion (set-buffer git-blame-file) (let ((info (gethash hash git-blame-cache)) (inhibit-point-motion-hooks t)) (when (not info) (let ((color (pop git-blame-colors))) (unless color (setq color git-blame-ancient-color)) (setq info (list hash src-line res-line num-lines (cons 'color color)))) (puthash hash info git-blame-cache)) (goto-line res-line) (while (> num-lines 0) (if (get-text-property (point) 'git-blame) (forward-line) (let* ((start (point)) (end (progn (forward-line 1) (point))) (ovl (make-overlay start end))) (push ovl git-blame-overlays) (overlay-put ovl 'git-blame info) (overlay-put ovl 'help-echo hash) (overlay-put ovl 'face (list :background (cdr (assq 'color (cddddr info))))) ;;(overlay-put ovl 'point-entered ;; `(lambda (x y) (git-blame-identify ,hash))) (let ((modified (buffer-modified-p))) (put-text-property (if (= start 1) start (1- start)) (1- end) 'point-entered `(lambda (x y) (git-blame-identify ,hash))) (set-buffer-modified-p modified)))) (setq num-lines (1- num-lines)))))) (defun git-blame-add-info (key value) (if git-blame-current (nconc git-blame-current (list (cons (intern key) value))))) (defun git-blame-current-commit () (let ((info (get-char-property (point) 'git-blame))) (if info (car info) (error "No commit info")))) (defun git-blame-identify (&optional hash) (interactive) (shell-command (format "git log -1 --pretty=oneline %s" (or hash (git-blame-current-commit))))) -- David Kågedal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html