Originally I wanted to make it change the face per-window, so I could
easily know which window I'm editing in. I even named it
auto-dim-other-windows at first.

Then I realized emacs only allows us to set per-buffer faces. It doesn't
allow us to set per-window faces. Please file a bug asking for the feature
to set per-window faces. For now, this is the best we can do with what
emacs gives us.

-Steven


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:

> Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks for the ideas.
> >
> > I've made an official github repo here:
> > https://github.com/sdegutis/auto-dim-other-buffers.el/
> >
> > The face is now customizable, with the black-background one being a dumb
> > default. This way, everyone can choose for themselves what will look
> right,
> > whether the background should get lighter or darker or maybe the text
> color
> > should instead.
>
> After trying your code from github, I have to ask: what is its purpose?
> I thought that it is used for easily locating the window where the
> cursor is. If that's true, you need to work with windows instead of
> buffers (think of two windows showing the same buffer: as the buffer for
> both is the "current" one, neither window is considered as "other" by
> your code as long as the cursor is in one of them.)
>
>
>