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+rainbow-blocks: Groking Lisp languages through block highlighting.
+======================
+
+
+Rainbow Blocks is an Emacs mode that highlights code blocks in lisp languages
+to help quickly mentally parse its structure.
+It is a fork from the brilliant
+[rainbow-delimiters.el](http://github.com/jlr/rainbow-delimiters) package, and
+only applies minor patches.
+
+It is inspired by Douglas Crockford's remark that highlighting scope rather
+that syntax is sometimes more useful.
+So far, however, it does not parse syntax nor understands language scope.
+
+### Emacs Lisp example
+
+##### rainbow delimiters
+![](elisp-delims.png)
+##### rainbow blocks
+![](elisp-blocks.png)
+
+
+### Installation
+
+* Install via melpa:
+```M-x package-install RET rainbow-blocks RED```
+
+* Compile the file (necessary for speed):
+```M-x byte-compile-file [location of rainbow-blocks.el]```
+
+* Add the following to your dot-emacs/init file:
+```(require 'rainbow-blocks)```
+
+* Activate the mode in your init file (e.g. for clojure):
+
+```(add-hook 'clojure-mode-hook 'rainbow-blocks-mode)```
+
+
+### Further reading
+
+- Daniel's Lamb's [implementation for JavaScript](https://github.com/daniellmb/JavaScript-Scope-Context-Coloring)
+- [Evan Brooks' article](https://medium.com/p/3a6db2743a1e/))