cursor-flash.el

• Highlights the cursor on buffer/window-switch

• Flashes a square of positions around POINT for a customizable interval.

This package temporarily highlights the area immediately surrounding POINT when navigating amongst buffers and windows. It is intended to assist in visually identifying the current POINT and the current window when many windows are on the same frame or when windows are very large (related stackexchange question).

Dependencies: NONE

Installation:

1. Evaluate or load or install this file.

2. Optionally, define a global keybinding or defalias for function cursor-flash-mode

         (global-set-key (kbd "foo") 'cursor-flash-mode))
         (defalias 'cursor-flash-mode 'foo)

3. Optionally, To automatically enable the mode when starting Emacs, add an equivalent of the following to your init file:

         (require 'cursor-flash)
         (cursor-flash-mode 1)

Operation:

M-x cursor-flash-mode

Configuration:

M-x customize-group cursor-flash

You can customize variable cursor-flash-interval and face cursor-flash-face.

Compatibility:

• Tested on Debian Emacs 27 nox.

• Includes support to operate nicely with yascroll-bar-mode and vline-mode. It temporarily suspends those modes locally during a flash in order not to make the buffer display jump around.

Feedback:

• It's best to contact me by opening an 'issue' on the package's github repository or, distant second-best, by direct e-mail.

• Code contributions are welcome and github starring is appreciated.

Colophon:

• Copyright (C) 2021 Boruch Baum boruch-baum@gmx.com
• Author/Maintainer: Boruch Baum boruch-baum@gmx.com
• Homepage: https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-cursor-flash
• License: GPL3+

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