Re: Highlighting current header and its contents

[Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>]

Tom <levelhalom@gmail.com> writes:

> One of my main gripes with orgmode is often I cannot make out
> clearly when the text content of an opened header ends and the
> next header begins, because there is no apparent visual
> indication.
>
> Of course, I can add empty lines manually to the end of the
> content, but this solution is not really satisfying (I don't need
> empty lines there, I add them only to see better where the
> content ends).
>
> I'm still thinking of a proper solution for this problem, but I'm
> posting one of my attempts for the time being which some may find
> useful. It highlights the header the cursor is in and its contents with a
> different background color:

Hi Tom,

Your overlay code's instructive for me, but I don't understand the
problem it's solving. Isn't the next heading made sufficiently distinct
by being bold and coloured and having an asterisk in front of it?

Dan

>
>
> (make-variable-buffer-local 'my-org-highlight-overlay)
>
> (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'my-org-highlight)
>
>
> (defun my-org-highlight ()
>   (when (and (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
>              (sit-for 0.1))
>     (unless my-org-highlight-overlay
>       (setq my-org-highlight-overlay (make-overlay 0 0))
>       (overlay-put my-org-highlight-overlay 'face '(:background "azure")))
>
>     (let ((header (save-excursion
>                     (beginning-of-line)
>                     (looking-at outline-regexp))))
>
>       (move-overlay my-org-highlight-overlay
>                     (save-excursion
>                       (if header
>                           (beginning-of-line)
>                         (outline-previous-visible-heading 1))
>                       (point))
>                     (save-excursion
>                       (outline-next-visible-heading 1)
>                       (point))))))
>
>
>
>
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