From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Re: Highlighting current window Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:22:02 -0700 Message-ID: <4A68C1430ABA4338A55FC57F627F03B5@us.oracle.com> References: <87hattxfay.wl%f@mazzo.li> <7EEB8635C8F742348EFD06F2C7514F0D@us.oracle.com><878vf4sikv.wl%f@mazzo.li> <4FEF5E95.10706@comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341105746 14812 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2012 01:22:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 01:22:26 +0000 (UTC) To: , "'help-gnu-emacs'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 01 03:22:25 2012 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 1Sl8rp-0005Sz-74 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 03:22:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sl8ro-00032B-5I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sl8ri-00031f-Bb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sl8rf-0005RD-T4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:22:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:50410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sl8rf-0005QF-MD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:22:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q611MBBX015371 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 1 Jul 2012 01:22:12 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q611MAhk011184 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 1 Jul 2012 01:22:11 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt109.oracle.com (abhmt109.oracle.com [141.146.116.61]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q611MALW019499; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:22:10 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.223.217) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:22:11 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4FEF5E95.10706@comcast.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac1W/UBaEAg1YOxMRF+1liE4NvsKkgAKYVkQ X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:85597 Archived-At: > I use ... the hl-line+ package which gives current line > highlighting but only in the active window.... > I also use a fairly innocuous line highlighting color > (:background "#222") so that it doesn't really conflict..., > but still draws attention to where I am. It draws your > attention to the exact line you're on as opposed to just > the window you're in, but I've found that useful. Thanks for mentioning hl-line+, Chris. There is also crosshairs.el, which extends hl-line+ by adding a vertical line through point. So it is easy to see where the cursor is (e.g. when you move your attention to another window). Typically you use the crosshairs display temporarily. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CrosshairHighlighting