Re: `auto-dim-other-windows` -- scrutiny invited

[Steven Degutis]

I forgive you of course. :)

By the way, I announced it too soon: the version in melpa is still a day old so it's pretty inefficient and buggy and doesn't match up to the one in github, so you may want to wait an hour or so before installing to let melpa catch up. :(

-Steven

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us> wrote:

Apologies for being an ass in response.

- mgsks (a new auto-dim-other-buffers user)

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:52:22AM -0500, Steven Degutis wrote:
> Okay okay I admit, that was an arrogant and pointless thing to say. Forgive
> me.
>
> -Steven
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:44:07AM -0500, Steven Degutis wrote:
> > > It's now called `auto-dim-other-buffers` and it just got a whole lot more
> > > efficient and faster:
> > https://github.com/sdegutis/auto-dim-other-buffers.el
> > >
> > > There's one bug left that I don't know how to fix: for some reason,
> > > anything echoed in the echo area is dimmed. Not really sure why or even
> > how.
> > >
> > > Why didn't anything like this exist all this time? I've checked
> > > stackoverflow for something like this months ago and the "chosen answer"
> > > was to just use a more distinct modeline. But this is much better.
> >
> > You're a real hero.
> >
> > >
> > > -Steven
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > >     (defun auto-dim-other-windows ()
> > > >       (make-face 'sd/dimmed-font)
> > > >       (set-face-attribute 'sd/dimmed-font nil :background "black")
> > > >
> > > >       (defun sd/prominantize-current-buffer (fn)
> > > >         (buffer-face-set 'sd/dimmed-font)
> > > >         (funcall fn)
> > > >         (buffer-face-set nil))
> > > >
> > > >       (defmacro sd/advise-window-changing-fn (fn)
> > > >         `(defadvice ,fn (around window-changing-fn-advice activate)
> > > >            (sd/prominantize-current-buffer (lambda () ad-do-it))))
> > > >
> > > >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn other-window)
> > > >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn other-frame)
> > > >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn next-buffer)
> > > >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn previous-buffer)
> > > >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn quit-window)
> > > >       (sd/advise-window-changing-fn mouse-select-window))
> > > >
> > > > -Steven
> > > >
> >