highlight confusion in agenda

highlight confusion in agenda

[Michael Gilbert]

Hi —

I have a frequent navigation issue in the agenda and I'm curious if anyone else deals with this or has a solution. Like many users I have the currently selected line in the agenda set to be highlighted (an absolute lifesaver). But although I am not very mouse-oriented, as an Aquamacs user I find that the line where the mouse happens to be hovering (not having selected anything) is mostly highlighted in exactly the same was as the selected line. This is a cause of frequent error on my part. I only notice this in the agenda, not in other files.

Is there any way to turn off the latter effect?

TIA

— Michael

Re: highlight confusion in agenda

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:

> Hi —
>
> I have a frequent navigation issue in the agenda and I'm curious if  
> anyone else deals with this or has a solution. Like many users I  
> have the currently selected line in the agenda set to be highlighted  
> (an absolute lifesaver). But although I am not very mouse-oriented,  
> as an Aquamacs user I find that the line where the mouse happens to  
> be hovering (not having selected anything) is mostly highlighted in  
> exactly the same was as the selected line. This is a cause of  
> frequent error on my part. I only notice this in the agenda, not in  
> other files.
>
> Is there any way to turn off the latter effect?

Untested:

(add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook
    (lambda () (remove-text-properties
	       (point-min) (point-max) '(mouse-face t))))

This might also turn off the mouse bindings in the agenda, at least  
some of them.
But maybe this is actually also what you'd like to have....

- Carsten

Re: highlight confusion in agenda

[Michael Gilbert]

>> I have a frequent navigation issue in the agenda and I'm curious if anyone else deals with this or has a solution. Like many users I have the currently selected line in the agenda set to be highlighted (an absolute lifesaver). But although I am not very mouse-oriented, as an Aquamacs user I find that the line where the mouse happens to be hovering (not having selected anything) is mostly highlighted in exactly the same was as the selected line. This is a cause of frequent error on my part. I only notice this in the agenda, not in other files.
>> 
>> Is there any way to turn off the latter effect?
> 
> Untested:
> 
> (add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook
>   (lambda () (remove-text-properties
> 	       (point-min) (point-max) '(mouse-face t))))
> 
> This might also turn off the mouse bindings in the agenda, at least some of them.
> But maybe this is actually also what you'd like to have....


Tested. Fantastic. Doesn't disable mouse-bindings completely, but totally solves my problem. Thank you so much.

— M

Re: highlight confusion in agenda

[Tassilo Horn]

Michael Gilbert <mcg@gilbert.org> writes:

Hi Michael,

>>> But although I am not very mouse-oriented, as an Aquamacs user I
>>> find that the line where the mouse happens to be hovering (not
>>> having selected anything) is mostly highlighted in exactly the same
>>> was as the selected line. This is a cause of frequent error on my
>>> part. I only notice this in the agenda, not in other files.
>>> 
>>> Is there any way to turn off the latter effect?
>> 
>> Untested:
>> 
>> (add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook
>>   (lambda () (remove-text-properties
>> 	       (point-min) (point-max) '(mouse-face t))))
>> 
>> This might also turn off the mouse bindings in the agenda, at least
>> some of them.  But maybe this is actually also what you'd like to
>> have....
>
> Tested. Fantastic. Doesn't disable mouse-bindings completely, but
> totally solves my problem. Thank you so much.

A littlebit less radical solution would be to change either the
`hl-line' or the `highlight' face so that they don't look identical.  Do
do that, do

  M-x customize-face hl-line RET

or

  M-x customize-face highlight RET

Bye,
Tassilo