Re: `auto-dim-other-windows` -- scrutiny invited

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:

> So it's more conventional to use a minor-mode to do this than just two
> functions?
>
> If so, is it considerably more difficult to implement it as a minor-mode?
> And would the code look any cleaner?

From the POV of the user a minor mode is an standard interface for
customizing Emacs with active features. For instance, he can query Emacs
about which modes are active at any moment (M-x describe-mode). Emacs
provides some sugar for making it easy to implement minor modes. A minor
mode for this feature would be quite simple and could be implemented
with something like (not tested):

(define-minor-mode auto-dim-other-windows-mode
  "Dim the background of non-selected windows

  blah, blah, blah (more info here)"

  (if auto-dim-other-windows-mode
      (auto-dim-other-windows-mode-disable)
    (auto-dim-other-windows-mode-enable))

where auto-dim-other-windows-mode-enable/disable are the functions your
current implementation is using.

As you can see, the code overhead is minimal.