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RE: Highlighting current window


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Highlighting current window
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:23:50 -0700

 
> I was looking for ways to make the focused window clearer. The best
> way would probably a slightly lighter background.
> 
> However, I couldn't find any hooks to easily do that. I was expecting
> something along the lines of `window-leave-hook' and
> `window-focus-hook' but I couldn't find anything similar.
> 
> The best suggestion that the IRC people came up with is to use
> `post-command-hook' and match `switch-buffer', but that sounds a bit
> ugly. Is there a better way?

Typically folks just look at the mode line to tell which window is selected.
Can you get by by customizing faces `mode-line' and `mode-line-inactive', making
the former something that stands out for you?




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