From: Joe Riel <jriel@maplesoft.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Distinguish inactive windows
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:38:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110623223825.6e1ce6ca@gauss> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110624T045101-528@post.gmane.org>
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:51:41 +0000 (UTC)
Alp Aker <alp.tekin.aker@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just thought of another, potentially much simpler expedient, one
> which will work for a particular window. You can use an overlay to
> put a light shading over the contents of the window. E.g.,
>
> (setq o (make-overlay (window-start w) (window-end w t)))
> (overlay-put o 'face '(:background "gray97"))
>
> where `w' is the window of interest.
Thanks for both ideas, I'll see which I prefer. I'm already
customizing the mode-line, but the overlay is simple to implement.
--
Joe Riel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-24 5:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-24 0:52 Distinguish inactive windows Joe Riel
2011-06-24 2:45 ` Alp Aker
2011-06-25 4:47 ` Joe Riel
2011-06-25 16:00 ` Alp Aker
2011-06-24 2:51 ` Alp Aker
2011-06-24 5:38 ` Joe Riel [this message]
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