Version 1.1.0 of package Pulsar has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Pulsar describes itself as: =================================================== Pulse highlight on demand or after select functions =================================================== More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/pulsar.html ## Summary: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PULSAR.EL: PULSE HIGHLIGHT LINE ON DEMAND OR AFTER RUNNING SELECT FUNCTIONS Protesilaos Stavrou i...@protesilaos.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This manual, written by Protesilaos Stavrou, describes the customization options for `pulsar' (or `pulsar.el'), and provides every other piece of information pertinent to it. The documentation furnished herein corresponds to stable version 1.1.0, released on 2024-08-29. Any reference to a newer feature which does not yet form part of the latest tagged commit, is explicitly marked as such. Current development target is 1.2.0-dev. ## Recent NEWS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHANGE LOG OF PULSAR.EL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The newest release is at the top. For further details, please consult the manual: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/pulsar>. Table of Contents ───────────────── Version 1.1.0 on 2024-08-29 Version 1.0.0 on 2023-08-12 Version 1.1.0 on 2024-08-29 ═══════════════════════════ This version includes quality-of-life refinements to an already stable package. Function aliases are recognised automatically ───────────────────────────────────────────── Pulsar will produce a highlight on the current line after one of the functions in `pulsar-pulse-functions' is used. This now works for aliases of those functions as well, even if they are not explicitly referenced in `pulsar-pulse-functions'. Whereas before, only the explicitly named functions would produce the pulse effect. Thanks to shipmints for the contribution, which was originally done in in pull request 12 and then refined over a series of commits: <https://github.com/protesilaos/pulsar/pull/12>. The author has assigned copyright to the Free Software Foundation. Users who want to opt out of this behaviour, can set the user option `pulsar-resolve-pulse-function-aliases' to a nil value. The `next-multiframe-window' will produce a pulse by default ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── This command is added to the `pulsar-pulse-functions'. It is consistent with what we do with the `other-window' command. Thanks to Maxim Dunaevsky for the contribution. This was done in pull request 6: <https://github.com/protesilaos/pulsar/pull/6>. The change is small, meaning that Maxim does not need to assign copyright to the Free Software Foundation. More common commands will pulse the current line ──────────────────────────────────────────────── I added the following to `pulsar-pulse-functions': 1. `evil-goto-first-line' 2. `evil-goto-line' 3. `evil-scroll-down' 4. `evil-scroll-line-to-bottom' 5. `evil-scroll-line-to-center' 6. `evil-scroll-line-to-top' 7. `evil-scroll-up' 8. `goto-line' 9. `handle-switch-frame' 10. `logos-backward-page-dwim' 11. `logos-forward-page-dwim' 12. `narrow-to-defun' 13. `narrow-to-page' 14. `narrow-to-region' 15. `widen' If you are using `setq', `setopt', the `:custom' keyword of `use-package', or related, make sure to update the value accordingly. You do not need to do anything if you are doing it with `add-to-list'. Pulse a region with `pulsar-pulse-region' ───────────────────────────────────────── The command `pulsar-pulse-region' pulses the active region. Thanks to Bahman Movaqar for the contribution. This was done on the now-deprecated mailing list: <https://lists.sr.ht/~protesilaos/pulsar/169317951630.22395.1479712244597429574...@git.sr.ht> The change is below the ~15 line limit and thus Bahman is not require to assign copyright to the Free Software Foundation. I still want to make this work with rectangular regions, which are not contiguous (in terms of character positions reading from left to right), but it is tricky. Maybe I will do it for the next version. Remember that the command `pulsar-highlight-dwim' will apply a temporary highlight to the active region or the current line. The highlight is removed as soon as another key is pressed. Version 1.0.0 on 2023-08-12 ═══════════════════════════ • The `next-buffer' and `previous-buffer' commands are added to the default value of the user option `pulsar-pulse-functions'. They will now trigger a pulse effect after they are called (if `pulsar-mode' is enabled in the current buffer or `pulsar-global-mode' is in use). • The command `pulsar-recenter-middle' is now an alias for `pulsar-recenter-center', instead of being the original name. Users do not need to change anything on their end: this is just an … …
