RE: `auto-dim-other-windows` -- scrutiny invited

[Drew Adams]

> > The goal was to make it more obvious at a really quick 
> > glance where the cursor is.
> 
> Maybe a different approach would work then: assuming that 
> when actively
> using Emacs you know where the cursor is, the problem should mostly be
> to find the cursor when coming back to Emacs.
> 
> In that case, maybe you could make the cursor in the selected window
> "annoyingly" visible (along the lines of hl-line, for example) after
> some idle time.

Which is *exactly* what automatic crosshairs-when-idle highlighting does, as I
reported earlier.

The cursor position is shown with cross-the-window crosshairs, but only after an
idle delay and only until you are no longer idle.

It's simple to try it, to see.  And the code is easy to understand, if you want
to do something different but similar using a timer.

Just load the code and `M-x toggle-crosshairs-when-idle':

code:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/crosshairs.el

description+screenshot:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CrosshairHighlighting