From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: `auto-dim-other-windows` -- scrutiny invited Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 09:37:14 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365007063 5341 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2013 16:37:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:37:43 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Ludwig, Mark'" , "'Steven Degutis'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 03 18:38:08 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNQhI-0002eg-JN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:38:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55726 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNQgt-0006Cg-LR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:32852) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNQgc-0006CF-Ci for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNQgY-0003xq-NS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:37:22 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:43948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNQgY-0003xS-H5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r33GbG8V027295 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:37:17 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r33GbFh7011084 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:37:16 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt118.oracle.com (abhmt118.oracle.com [141.146.116.70]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id r33GbFpO003862; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:37:15 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.8) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:37:15 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AQHOL+YAMUoW57o59ECiLzITz/n+pJjE52iA//+8aMCAAAUnUA== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89951 Archived-At: > I have to confess to never noticing the change in mode line > shading (until this thread)! The default mode-line face difference is not great - not pronounced enough, IMO. FWIW, I use quite different backgrounds for these two faces: mode-line: PaleGoldenrod mode-line-inactive: LightGray I also have the cursor change automatically to a box (from a bar) when Emacs is idle (2 sec, by default). The (trivial) code for this is in oneonone.el. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/oneonone.el For even more visibility you can have Emacs show crosshairs (vertical and horizontal lines across the window) through the cursor when Emacs is idle. For this, see library crosshairs.el. (Here the default is 5 sec.) http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/crosshairs.el These things can help make the selected window more obvious. Of course one person's helpful indication is another person's distraction or annoyance. ;-) Personally, I do not use the automatic crosshairs-when-idle highlighting. (I do toggle crosshairs mode on/off by hitting `C-+'. The crosshairs follow the cursor. But this is for a different purpose than just noticing the selected window.)