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Re: [Orgmode] Highlighting current header and its contents
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Dan Davison |
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Re: [Orgmode] Highlighting current header and its contents |
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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:59:06 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Tom <address@hidden> writes:
> One of my main gripes with orgmode is often I cannot make out
> clearly when the text content of an opened header ends and the
> next header begins, because there is no apparent visual
> indication.
>
> Of course, I can add empty lines manually to the end of the
> content, but this solution is not really satisfying (I don't need
> empty lines there, I add them only to see better where the
> content ends).
>
> I'm still thinking of a proper solution for this problem, but I'm
> posting one of my attempts for the time being which some may find
> useful. It highlights the header the cursor is in and its contents with a
> different background color:
Hi Tom,
Your overlay code's instructive for me, but I don't understand the
problem it's solving. Isn't the next heading made sufficiently distinct
by being bold and coloured and having an asterisk in front of it?
Dan
>
>
> (make-variable-buffer-local 'my-org-highlight-overlay)
>
> (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'my-org-highlight)
>
>
> (defun my-org-highlight ()
> (when (and (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
> (sit-for 0.1))
> (unless my-org-highlight-overlay
> (setq my-org-highlight-overlay (make-overlay 0 0))
> (overlay-put my-org-highlight-overlay 'face '(:background "azure")))
>
> (let ((header (save-excursion
> (beginning-of-line)
> (looking-at outline-regexp))))
>
> (move-overlay my-org-highlight-overlay
> (save-excursion
> (if header
> (beginning-of-line)
> (outline-previous-visible-heading 1))
> (point))
> (save-excursion
> (outline-next-visible-heading 1)
> (point))))))
>
>
>
>
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