OK, I think I need to reenable fci-mode at the end of beacon--dec. It seems
to sort of work, just that the fci-mode gets re-enabled too soon, slightly
before the beacon trails finish vanishing.


--
Kaushal Modi

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
wrote:

> This gif shows the problem with fci-mode enabled:
> http://i.imgur.com/G2ojtKc.gifv
>
> That vertical line on the right is what the Fill Column Indicator package
> is inserting. With that persistently enabled, you can see that it messes up
> the beacon.. the cursor keeps on jumping to the set column.
>
> I tried this to disable fci at the right time:
>
> (defun beacon--shine ()
>   "Shine a beacon at point."
>   (setq-local sanityinc/fci-mode-suppressed fci-mode)
>   (when fci-mode
>     (turn-off-fci-mode))
>   (let ((colors (beacon--color-range)))
>     (save-excursion
>       (while colors
>         (if (looking-at "$")
>             (progn
>               (beacon--after-string-overlay colors)
>               (setq colors nil))
>           (beacon--colored-overlay (pop colors))
>           (forward-char 1))))))
>
>
> But I cannot figure out where to reenable it.. it didn't work if I tried
> to renable at the end of beacon--shine or beacon-blink.
>
>
> --
> Kaushal Modi
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Artur Malabarba <
> bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 2015-10-15 18:33 GMT+01:00 Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> BTW, I just tried it out and it looks great! I like that meteor trail
>>> effect :)
>>>
>>> I now just need to figure out how to make it play nice with fci-mode.
>>>
>>> If a beacon pre/post hook is available, I can disable/enable fci-mode in
>>> there.
>>>
>>
>> Before I push this tomorrow there'll be a way to conditionally avoid
>> blinking. Would that help? What's fci-mode like and why does it conflict?
>>
>
>