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[GNU ELPA] Greenbar version 1.1


From: ELPA update
Subject: [GNU ELPA] Greenbar version 1.1
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 05:28:13 -0400

Version 1.1 of package Greenbar has just been released in GNU ELPA.
You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.

Greenbar describes itself as:

  =============================================
  Mark comint output with "greenbar" background
  =============================================

More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/greenbar.html

## Summary:

  For us old neck beards, who learned to write software on punch
  cards and print out our code and output on wide line printers, it
  was helpful to have alternating bands of subtle background coloring
  to guide our eyes across the line on the page.  Reading long rows
  of text across a 14 7/8" page, it was very easy to loose your place
  vertically while scanning the page horizontally.  The subtle
  background shading was often done with pale bands of green
  alternating with the white of the paper.

  Paper pre-printed with the pale green bars was often referred to as
  "green bar" and the technique is also referred to as "zebra
  striping."  In Emacs, in `ps-print.el' (PostScript print facility),
  the feature is enabling with the `ps-zebra-stripes' setting.

## Recent NEWS:

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