From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Clemens Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: highlight current window/modeline after switching to it Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:32:33 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3FBA6C9A.8090203@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069495942 1698 80.91.224.253 (22 Nov 2003 10:12:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 22 11:12:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANUkV-0002iq-00 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:12:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ANVg4-0002Zh-4E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 06:11:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ANVfl-0002ZY-QV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 06:11:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ANVfE-0002Pb-TR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 06:11:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ANVfE-0002OG-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 06:10:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANUhm-00013U-00 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:09:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANUhl-00013M-00 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:09:29 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANUhl-0000Nb-00 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:09:29 +0100 Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EicInh1+oWSHB9OuKzDh1ZB5Exo= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14502 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14502 * 2003-11-18 Chris McMahan: > I've got the following code that flashes the newly-selected > window. The latest version of emacs has faces for mode-line and > mode-line-inactive that will allow you to change their appearance. > > e-other-window can be found at: > http://relativity.yi.org/el/e-other-window.el thanks for this pointer, but my problem is slightly different. i would like to have in indicator on the (selected-window) for the entire duration the cursor is in it. a star `*' maybe in the mode-line. just flushing it would improve the situation, but i'd soon forget which window "beeped" last. thanks for your help, clemens