New sexp-comment-fade really looks nice

The new "fade" effect for sexps commented out with hash-semicolons looks really nice:

FWIW, this is only available in nightly / HEAD, not in 8.3. It should be in 8.4, though!

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This is excellent!

There was a discussion earlier, where some people felt that a s-exp commented out by #; should not be syntax-highlighted normally, because it’s a comment, while other people felt the coloring was useful to see the structure of the s-exp. The “fade” effect looks like it’ll make people on both sides happy – you can see that it’s a comment, but you can also see the structure. Yay!

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S-expression comments are a Racket feature and this seems like a very Racket-y way to deal with this. Looking forward to using it!

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Sweet! Looks awesome. Thanks for sharing, I'll try nightly.

Dex