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RE: highlight current line when Emacs is idle
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: highlight current line when Emacs is idle |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Sep 2006 23:47:34 -0700 |
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.