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Re: highlight-changes-mode
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rsharman |
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Re: highlight-changes-mode |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:15:18 -0500 |
Nick Roberts writes:
>
> > Attached is the new version; please let me know what you think.
>
> I don't use highlight-changes-mode but the mode line indicator doesn't appear
> to toggle unless you do "M-x highlight-changes-toggle-visibility"
> first.
Yes, originally I had the mode line displaying either "CHG" or "chg"
depending if the submide was active or passive. (Those terms refer toe
the old version; I've now called the visible on invisible.)
But Richard Stallman said there was no point in having a modeline
indicator when in "active" sub-mode because it would be obvious.
So there are [in both the old and the new versions] two variables that
can be customized:
highlight-changes-active-string - defaults to nil, but you could
set it to " CHG" for example.
highlight-changes-passive-string - defaults to " Chg".
> The manual just says:
>
> Use `M-x highlight-changes-mode' to enable (or disable) Highlight
> Changes mode, a minor mode that uses faces (colors, typically) to
> indicate which parts of the buffer were changed most recently.
>
> Perhaps that needs updating.
I think that paragraph is still true. Any changed text should have
been displayed differently when you turned on highlight-changes-mode
(even though the mode indicator hadn't changed).
Also it might be a good idea to use
> define-minor-mode to define highlight-changes-mode.
>
OK, I'll take a look into that.
Thanks for the feedback.
Richard