pulsing-cursor-mode - UI tweak cursor animation: fades in & out.

Sauce: [https://github.com/jasonjckn/pulsing-cursor](https://github.com/jasonjckn/pulsing-cursor) This is my first emacs module/contribution, feedback welcome. Requires GUI/non-terminal emacs. Doom packages.el: (package! pulsing-cursor :recipe (:host github :repo "jasonjckn/pulsing-cursor")) Emacs config: (use-package pulsing-cursor :config (pulsing-cursor-mode +1))

Could you say something about how this differs from the built-in `blink-cursor-mode`? I'm not immediately seeing a difference from the GIF or your README.

The cursor is blinking with interpolations of the alpha channel / transparency. I see now in the GIF it's not that easy to notice, my bad for the GIF @ 20 fps rendering, its much more noticeable IRL @ 60 fps / monitor refresh rate.

May I ask what font you're using?

Cascadia Code

Thank you! I'll try that, along with your extension, when I get home to my Debian box.

oh my god i love this so much lol

Theme?

Custom theme, modeled off of vscode's radical theme. Screenshot: [https://i.redd.it/b5cv9pak1zu81.png](https://i.redd.it/b5cv9pak1zu81.png) Sauce: https://gist.github.com/jasonjckn/a28e30293aff03d116b2410e6410b9ac

this is cute! i love it

Awesome little detail. Using it right now and love it. Thank you for the work you put into it.

A minor nitpick, but I guess that's my pet peeve at this point: `use-package` doesn't install anything, you need to instruct it to do so using some method it can integrate with (`:ensure`, `:straight`, or a global equivalent).

Is it possible to change the duration of the fade animation?

try setting pulsing-cursor-interval to a larger value, but this part of the code needs more work

I tried that, but it seems that just delays the blinking not the animation itself.

I really want to see this ba-dump ba-dump ba-dump like a beating heart...

I actually have a heartbeat sound fx mode too funny enough, I don't use it anymore though. Only works on macOS. [https://gist.github.com/jasonjckn/bc7e8e8f85ea4d7eeccc290ef391d42b](https://gist.github.com/jasonjckn/bc7e8e8f85ea4d7eeccc290ef391d42b) [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1--VmvwRkM2vZxkIf6-V6XUtIOXHdX1Gr/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1--VmvwRkM2vZxkIf6-V6XUtIOXHdX1Gr/view?usp=sharing) (I wasn't sure what you meant w.r.t to the pulsing cursor, do you just want to be able to set the intervals)

I just downloaded this, eval-buffer on it, and then (pulsing-cursor-mode +1) Nothing happened. Just same blink cursor. Running 28.1 on Centos 7.9.2009. I know it's running because I can customize stuff like Pulsing Cursor Interval and see that affects the blinking but there's no pulsing. Any ideas?

Are you using a GUI/non-terminal instance of emacs? Terminal won't work. Also if you invoke it interactively, M-x pulsing-cursor-mode, it should say "Pulsing-cursor mode enabled" in messages. Double check that. What kind of configuration system are you using? i.e. prelude, spacemacs, doom, DIY, etc.

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I’m in GUI mode. Plain old gnu emacs - been running over 20 years! A couple of odd things I’ve seen. 1) Ran emacs -Q and it didn’t work at first by starting it by evaluating (pulsing-cursor-mode +1) in *scratch*. But then using m-x pulsing-cursor-mode worked! 2) Tried this in my normal emacs and it displayed correctly in messages but still regular blinking cursor. Maybe some conflict with my init but I don’t see anything obvious.

I don't know sorry, but if you figure it out, let me know and i'll push a fix. You seem to be the only one with this issue that I know about.