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.

-Steven


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:

> Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >     (defun auto-dim-other-windows ()
> >       (make-face 'sd/dimmed-font)
> >       (set-face-attribute 'sd/dimmed-font nil :background "black")
> >
> >       (defun sd/prominantize-current-buffer (fn)
> >         (buffer-face-set 'sd/dimmed-font)
> >         (funcall fn)
> >         (buffer-face-set nil))
> >
> >       (defmacro sd/advise-window-changing-fn (fn)
> >         `(defadvice ,fn (around window-changing-fn-advice activate)
> >            (sd/prominantize-current-buffer (lambda () ad-do-it))))
> >
> >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn other-window)
> >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn other-frame)
> >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn next-buffer)
> >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn previous-buffer)
> >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn quit-window)
> >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn mouse-select-window))
>
> Interesting idea.
>
> Some observations (in case you already are interested on bugs &
> enhancements):
>
> Newly created windows doesn't show the effect (to replicate just do M-x
> 2). It is necessary to have different buffers on each window and move
> the cursor form one to another one time to trigger the background
> change.
>
> When the other window contains several backgrounds, the effect is
> displeasing.
>
> Instead of picking a hard-coded background for the other windows, maybe
> the current default background should be probed and a transformation
> (darken, etc) applied to it. This would be most useful for users who
> change themes from time to time.
>
>
>