From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Howard Melman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: beacon Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:31:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444934202 23924 80.91.229.3 (15 Oct 2015 18:36:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:36:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 15 20:36:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmnO6-0001Ya-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:36:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmnO5-0002wD-8b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmnMx-0002tM-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmnMt-0007hp-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:35:15 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47994) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmnMt-0007fc-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmnMo-00009Q-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:35:06 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-108-26-182-240.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([108.26.182.240]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:35:06 +0200 Original-Received: from hmelman by pool-108-26-182-240.bstnma.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:35:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-108-26-182-240.bstnma.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mxaaiEjTtlPs1lGTzvHSvRkTz3A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191676 Archived-At: Artur Malabarba writes: > Whenever the window scrolls or the buffer changes a light will shine on > top of your cursor so you know where it is. > > That’s it. See this gif for example: > https://github.com/Malabarba/beacon/raw/master/example-beacon.gif I like it. Though I reversed the list of colors that beacon--color-range returned and prefer it. At least on my light-colored background, the effect is that the "shine" moves towards the cursor, leaving my eye at the cursor. Howard