Actually since overlays can be per-window, it might actually make dimming
other *windows* work, which was the original goal, rather than other
*buffers*.

So using window-specific overlays may be worth a try. If I can ever figure
out how to use them.

-Steven


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:

> Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > It's now called `auto-dim-other-buffers` and it just got a whole lot more
> > efficient and faster:
> https://github.com/sdegutis/auto-dim-other-buffers.el
>
> I see that you introduced some intelligence for operating only on/when
> the buffers affected by the change. Maybe it is worth to try the overlay
> approach. I bet that it will be efficient enough.
>
> What I'm concerned about is the collision of the overlay that auto-dim
> creates with the overlays that might pre-exist in the window. But the
> current implementation already suffers a similar problem with faces, so
> it can't be worse.
>
>
>