From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Flashing Buffer Region in other Window Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:20:11 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <532d4892-1dec-401c-a473-8cea36b06981@z41g2000yqz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257943281 24842 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2009 12:41:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:41:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 11 13:41:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8CVb-0000vJ-UF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:41:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8CVa-0000RA-Pm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:41:10 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z41g2000yqz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.227.15.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1257942011 6855 127.0.0.1 (11 Nov 2009 12:20:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:20:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z41g2000yqz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.227.15.253; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 ip1-w.foi.se:8080 (IronPort-WSA/6.3.0-604) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.244.0 Safari/532.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174585 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69660 Archived-At: I am trying to find a function that temporarily highlight/flash the a buffer region in a window other than the active one (other-window). Neither hl-line-highlight nor highwin works. They require the flashing window to be active. Do I have to create the overlay myself and delete it after a timeout? How does grep and occur solve their flashing? Any other package to recommend for this purpose? Thanks, Nordl=F6w