dimme background instead of foreground.

[4goodapp]

Is it possible to dimme the background (to be darker or lighter) instead of dimming the text/foreground?

There is this package auto-dim-other-buffers.el that does that but you have to chose one unique background color instead of a darker/lighter background of the current theme's. So when you change theme, things don't look good. and there is no way to change the dimme level with it.

[gonewest818]

I seem to remember looking at this when I first wrote the package, and the challenge was exactly as you describe... what's the best way to mathematically compute a darker (or lighter) background color that is consistent with the rest of theme? At the time I wasn't able to come up with anything I liked.

[gonewest818]

This is a new feature on the master branch, will be picked up in MELPA in the next few hours whenever the next auto-build runs. Give it a try and see what you think?

[4goodapp]

Will test it once available on MELPA. Thanks.

[4goodapp]

It's working perfectly as expected 👍

I however use (setq dimmer-fraction 0.08) instead of (setq dimmer-fraction 0.3) with dimmer-adjustment-mode set to :background.

(use-package dimmer
  :config
  (setq dimmer-adjustment-mode :background)
  (setq dimmer-exclusion-regexp "^\\*helm.*\\|^ \\*Minibuf-.*")
  (setq dimmer-fraction 0.08)
  (dimmer-mode)
  )

[gonewest818]

Great! Yes, I agree, the background adjustment feels more aggressive than the foreground.

Note that the Minibuffer is now excluded by default and the dimmer-exclusion-regexp variable is now obsolete. In your case you can simplify your use-package setup like this:

(use-package dimmer
  :config
  (setq dimmer-adjustment-mode :background)
  (setq dimmer-fraction 0.08)
  (dimmer-configure-helm)
  (dimmer-mode t))

[4goodapp]

Yes, that, it's more aggressive.
I replaced helm with Ivy/counsel. So I think I can just comment that line.

Now let's suppose I want exclude certain buffer like *imenu-list*, How can I set it with dimmer-exclusion-regexp-list?

[gonewest818]

Try this:

(use-package dimmer
  :config
  (setq dimmer-adjustment-mode :background)
  (setq dimmer-fraction 0.08)
  (add-to-list 'dimmer-exclusion-regexp-list "^\\*imenu-list\\*$")
  (dimmer-mode t))

[4goodapp]

Perfect!

I think we need a dimmer-inclusion-regexp-listso that certain are always dimmed.

[gonewest818]

If you can open another ticket for that? I would always want some way to "un-dim" a buffer by switching to it, but I suppose that’s why we have user preferences.

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[4goodapp]

Done #27