From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: recommended techniques for "temporary highlighting"? Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:58:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507964374 6361 195.159.176.226 (14 Oct 2017 06:59:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 06:59:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 14 08:59:27 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e3GPn-0008L0-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:59:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e3GPu-0006H5-Sf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2017 02:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51982) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e3GPL-0006Gw-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2017 02:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e3GPH-0005Pz-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2017 02:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57259 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e3GPH-0005PT-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2017 02:58:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e3GOm-00017Z-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:58:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:yCxo+Vl88dtqRITtRN67geaXnb8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219481 Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 14 2017, Miles Bader wrote: > Any thoughts as to what the best way to do this sort of thing is? I'd use technique (2) and clear the overloay in a timer, similar to `pulse-momentary-highlight-region` does it. Helmut