From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eike Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Change appearance of selected image Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:16:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87si07l0sw.fsf@ithaka.home> References: <87vb53cswe.fsf@gnus.org> 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 1457039847 2839 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2016 21:17:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 21:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 03 22:17:18 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1abacT-0006md-2N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:17:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37409 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abacS-00058W-3o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:17:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abac4-0004sg-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:16:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ababz-0006aU-4f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eknet.org ([188.40.107.134]:47548) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ababy-0006a2-Uu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: from 84-73-243-201.dclient.hispeed.ch ([84.73.243.201] helo=ithaka.home.eknet.org) by eknet.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1ababt-0006mu-6e; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 21:16:42 +0000 User-agent: mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 24.5.2 In-reply-to: <87vb53cswe.fsf@gnus.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 188.40.107.134 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109428 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Looking at the code, there seems to be no way to change the width of the > box that's drawn around images (when the cursor is on them). You can, > however, change the colour. I use a red cursor myself: > > (setq default-frame-alist > (nconc (list '(mouse-color . "red") > '(cursor-type . box) > '(cursor-color . "red")) > default-frame-alist)) Thanks!! That is really helpful. And its good enough for me to recognize selected images. The only side effect is that the normal cursor is red, too :) but, that's ok for me. >> And how can I make Emacs draw/display another rectangle around an >> image, so it may appear as “marked”? > > Hm... I don't think Emacs has any built-in functionality for doing > that. I think you'd have to create a new image that has the border you > want, and then composite the thumbnail onto it. Yes, I was thinking about that, too. But I was hoping that I just missed some vars to set :) Thank you! and kind regards Eike -- gpg: AD7AC35E finger print: 137F BB0B 1639 D25F DC5D E59C B412 C5F5 AD7A C35E