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

[Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>]

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Okay, figured it out.

Now it's a global minor mode.

(But melpa won't catch up for a few hours.)

Thanks guys.

Later, if I can find some time, I might try to make a new similar project
that uses window-overlays via Michael's idea. And I'm going to name it
`tunnel-vision`, since the current project's name is way too long.

-Steven


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems legit. But then how do users typically install it? It's not like
> other minor modes which are part of a hook. Do they just do
> "auto-dim-other-buffers-mode" and it's enabled globally until they disable
> it the same way or quit emacs?
>
> Funny, melpa *just* updated it a few minutes ago, and it's already about
> to be woefully out of date again. At least the version in melpa right now
> is much more efficient than the last one.
>
> -Steven
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>
>> Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > So it's more conventional to use a minor-mode to do this than just two
>> > functions?
>> >
>> > If so, is it considerably more difficult to implement it as a
>> minor-mode?
>> > And would the code look any cleaner?
>>
>> From the POV of the user a minor mode is an standard interface for
>> customizing Emacs with active features. For instance, he can query Emacs
>> about which modes are active at any moment (M-x describe-mode). Emacs
>> provides some sugar for making it easy to implement minor modes. A minor
>> mode for this feature would be quite simple and could be implemented
>> with something like (not tested):
>>
>> (define-minor-mode auto-dim-other-windows-mode
>>   "Dim the background of non-selected windows
>>
>>   blah, blah, blah (more info here)"
>>
>>   (if auto-dim-other-windows-mode
>>       (auto-dim-other-windows-mode-disable)
>>     (auto-dim-other-windows-mode-enable))
>>
>> where auto-dim-other-windows-mode-enable/disable are the functions your
>> current implementation is using.
>>
>> As you can see, the code overhead is minimal.
>>
>
>

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