From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: highlight current line when Emacs is idle Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 23:47:34 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157438898 6764 80.91.229.2 (5 Sep 2006 06:48:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 06:48:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 05 08:48:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKUj2-0004zF-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:48:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKUj1-0000LT-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:47:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GKUir-0000Hc-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GKUio-0000CD-Q7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:47:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKUio-0000Bp-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1GKUtV-0005LT-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.51]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k856liJ9004270 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:47:44 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-rmdc-csvpn-gw6-141-144-113-237.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.113.237]) by rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k856lhp2023149 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 00:47:43 -0600 Original-To: "Emacs-Devel" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:59353 Archived-At: This suggestion (for after the release) is a follow-on to my suggestion to change the cursor to a box when Emacs is idle in order to more easily spot it. Suggestion: Optionally turn on `global-hl-line-mode' and highlight the current line only when Emacs is idle. A follow-on to that follow-on: Perhaps optionally highlight the current column as well. I use code in Rick Bielawski's library column-marker.el to do this. Highlighting (faintly) both the current line and column provides a cross-hairs effect that makes the cursor very easy to locate. One use of this might be for better accessibility for people who are visually impaired. I use an idle timer of several seconds for this myself, but setting the timer interval to zero gives a pair of cross hairs as wide and high as the buffer that track the cursor continually.