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From: emacs-list-18@pgxml.net
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: visualize evil insert mode
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 08:30:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmbm9ouh.fsf@radagast.pgxml.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87in5v884r.fsf@telefonica.net> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:04:20 +0200")

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> emacs-list-18@pgxml.net writes:
>
>>  i am searching for ideas how to visualize that evil mode is in insert
>>  state.

[...]

> Any other ideas for this? No, hl-line-mode  does not count... ;-)
>
> It depends on what you mean when you say "visualize".
>
> I use
>
> (setq evil-insert-state-cursor '("red" hbar))
> (setq evil-insert-state-tag
>   (propertize "<I>" 'face '((:foreground "white" :background "red"))))
>
> Similar for the other modes.

Thank you, i did not know that! :-)

To be a bit more precise...

- shows the current line where the cursor is (works halfway)
- shows the current line even if it is empty (i am experimenting with
  overlays here)
- works on terminals with less than 256 colors.

Chris



  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-05  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-04  6:44 visualize evil insert mode emacs-list-18
2018-07-04 13:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-07-05  6:30   ` emacs-list-18 [this message]
2018-07-04 13:14 ` Bingo

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