hiwin-mode

Introduction

hiwin.el is a minor-mode of Emacs to change the background color of the deactive window.

Screenshot

Requirements

• Emacs 27 or higher

Installation & sample setting

With use-package.el and vc-use-package.el

(use-package hiwin-mode
  :vc
  (:fetcher github :repo fenril058/hiwin-mode)
  :config
  (hiwin-mode 1))

With leaf.el:

(leaf hiwin-mode
  :vc
  (:url "https://github.com/fenril058/hiwin-mode" :branch "main")
  :custom-face
  (hiwin-face . '((((class color) (background light))
                   (:background "gray90"))))
  :global-minor-mode t)

Basic Usage

Enable hiwin-mode.

(hiwin-mode 1)

Customization

hiwin-face

Face for deactive windows. For example;

(set-face-background 'hiwin-face "gray80")

hiwin-ignore-buffer-names

List of the buffer names which do not change background color when they are in a deactive window.

You can custmize this variable BEFORE enabling hiwin-mode. If you change it while enabling hiwin-mode, you have to run hiwin-refresh-ignore-buffer-names to refreshhiwin-ignore-buffer-name-regexp.

hiwin-ignore-minibuffer-selected-window

If the value is non-nil, the background color of the window selected just before the minibuffer does not change. The default value is nil.

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