Re: [ELPA] New package: beacon

[Artur Malabarba]

On 15 Oct 2015 6:36 pm, "Marcin Borkowski" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 2015-10-15, at 19:02, Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > Whenever the window scrolls or the buffer changes a light will shine on
> > top of your cursor so you know where it is.
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> > That’s it. See this gif for example:
> > https://github.com/Malabarba/beacon/raw/master/example-beacon.gif
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> Cool.  I didn't understand one thing (and could not see it in the gif):
> what do you mean by "buffer changes"?  Any self-insert-command key will
> fire this flashy-thing? 

No, I mean when you switch buffer. :-)

Simply editing the buffer will not blink the beacon.

Moving point will only blink the beacon if it causes the window to scroll. But there's a variable to make it blink when point moves very far even if the window didn't scroll.