outermost-only-face-count in rainbow-delimiters

[fatiparty]

Jan 19, 2022, 04:46 by michael_heerdegen@web.de:

> fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I am using rainbow-delimiters.  Does anyone understand how
>> outermost-only-face-count functions?
>>
>
> I suggest you set it to (- rainbow-delimiters-max-face-count 1) and
> insert a bunch of parens: ((((((((((((((())))))))))))))) and see what
> you get, then try with (- rainbow-delimiters-max-face-count 2).
>
> This limits the rainbow faces used for cycing to the last 1, the last 2
> faces, etc, for paren levels deeper than
> `rainbow-delimiters-max-face-count'.
>
> Michael.
>

Took me some time to see through this.  Is there any particular use for it?