From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `auto-dim-other-windows` -- scrutiny invited Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:49:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ehersl1c.fsf@wanadoo.es> <4CAC0625449A4494938E732EF60CC5E3@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365278387 26402 80.91.229.3 (6 Apr 2013 19:59:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:59:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 06 21:59:50 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 1UOZHC-0007UX-6w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:59:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UOYV5-0008KO-5k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38824) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UOYUk-0008B8-GE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UOYUa-00045k-HR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:09:46 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UOYUa-00045G-9c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:09:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UOYOa-00035P-7s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:03:24 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:03:24 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:03:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wHuWiBGYCLQwPtVJtPOiJjQXdmY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:90006 Archived-At: > The goal was to make it more obvious at a really quick glance where the > cursor is. Maybe a different approach would work then: assuming that when actively using Emacs you know where the cursor is, the problem should mostly be to find the cursor when coming back to Emacs. In that case, maybe you could make the cursor in the selected window "annoyingly" visible (along the lines of hl-line, for example) after some idle time. Stefan "who uses a window manager where the focus always follows the mouse, so finding the selected window amounts to finding the mouse cursor"