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

[Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>]

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Yes it's true we have the mental capability of holding lots of state in our
heads. But to be efficient, we should be offloading as much of the unneeded
state out of our heads as possible at any given moment. This is one of
those unnecessary state things. It should be visual.

Plus I have a bar cursor, not a box cursor. Plus even as a box, on my 27"
monitor, it's much too small to quickly find subconsciously.

-Steven


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Ludwig, Mark <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>wrote:

> > From: Steven Degutis
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 9:44 AM
>
> > Why didn't anything like this exist all this time?
>
> I think you're answering your own question in part by going
> through all the variations and challenges with the various
> approaches.
>
> Another answer is that many Emacs users have been using it for a
> very long time, and the user base is self-selecting
> (self-limiting?) by the fundamental nature of the baroque command
> set and standard keyboard mappings.  (Only people with certain
> kinds of wetware in their heads can handle it successfully.  It's
> certainly not for everyone!)  If one can keep track of the
> hundreds of key strokes and functions necessary to make using
> Emacs really great, it's not usually much of a problem to
> remember where the keyboard focus is.
>
> For my part, I rarely lose track of where I am, but when I do, my
> fingers reflexively go for ``C-/'' (undo) until the "damage" is
> undone, then ``C-x o'' to get focus where I thought it was.
> Nowadays, I take advantage of the multiple frame support, which
> reduces the need for splitting a single frame into multiple
> windows, and most window managers decorate the frame with focus
> sufficiently to avoid making a mistake.
>
> I have to confess to never noticing the change in mode line
> shading (until this thread)!  What /I/ /usually/ notice is
> whether the cursor is a solid or hollow block....
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>

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