{"id":11880,"date":"2024-01-02T11:39:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11880"},"modified":"2024-01-02T11:39:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:39:24","slug":"one-last-time-with-marking-the-active-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11880","title":{"rendered":"One Last Time With Marking The Active Window"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI thought I was finished writing about marking the active Emacs window so that it stands out. It all started<\/a> with my post on James Dyer’s method of placing a red line on the left hand fringe. I liked his solution but thought that simply coloring the mode line would be better.\n<\/p>\n

\nIgnacio Paz Posse left a comment to that post showing that it was actually very easy to do. I immediately tried his solution and thought it was perfect. Since then, three new things have happened or come to light.\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Sacha Chua also implemented Posse’s solution<\/a>. She chose a light blue (bg-blue-subtle<\/code>) that looks nice but doesn’t stand out enough for my taste.<\/li>\n
  2. I changed the color I was using from dark goldenrod<\/code> to goldenrod<\/code>. It still stands out but isn’t quite as dark and doesn’t swallow the non-black foreground colors as much. I also changed the attribute from mode-line<\/code> to mode-line-active<\/code>. I think I understand why just mode-line<\/code> works but it’s nice to be precise when you can be.<\/li>\n
  3. Dyer rewrote his code to fix a conflict with visual-fill-column-mode<\/code>. That was easy so if you like the idea of marking the active window with a left red fringe. his post explaining the fix is here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \nIn any event, there’s no reason to live with the hard-to-discern gray\/light-gray default. As far as I’m concerned, something more distinguishable should be the default but I can only imagine the uproar that would result if that default were changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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