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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Different buffer background depending on if window active
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 01:55:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50905181655n1aebfb5ag65980e1d980806b2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b501d5c0905171419y12d4ff28n8bec12cdcedb93a5@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've always wanted to have the currently active window in Emacs have a
> different background color to see which one I'm currently "in" easier.
>  One could imagine this as a part of a much larger change to have a
> whole set of different parameters depending on the currently active
> window.
>
> Has this feature been requested before?  Would it be cumbersome to
> implement?  Is it desirable at all?  Can this be hacked together using
> simple Emacs Lisp?

An alternative that you can use is to customize the faces mode-line
and mode-line-inactive.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-18 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-17 21:19 Different buffer background depending on if window active Deniz Dogan
2009-05-18  3:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-18 23:26   ` Johan Bockgård
2009-05-19  0:14     ` Miles Bader
2009-05-18 23:55 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-05-19  1:13   ` Sean O'Rourke
2009-05-19 15:50     ` Deniz Dogan

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