Highlight regions of a buffer based on the time of most recent update. Older updated region is highlighted lighter, newer region is highlighted darker.
This is Emacs port of Vim's smeargle
smeargle is available on MELPA and MELPA stable
You can install smeargle with the following command.
M-x package-install [RET] smeargle [RET]
Highlight regions by last updated time.
Highlight regions by age of changes.
Clear overlays in current buffer
You can set highlighted colors of smeargle by changing smeargle-colors.
For example
(custom-set-variables
'(smeargle-colors '((older-than-1day . "red")
(older-than-3day . "green")
(older-than-1week . "yellow")
(older-than-2week . nil)
(older-than-1month . "orange")
(older-than-3month . "pink")
(older-than-6month . "cyan")
(older-than-1year . "grey50"))))If color parameter is nil, that part is not highlighted.
And you can also set colors of smeargle-commits by smeargle-age-colors.
(custom-set-variables
'(smeargle-age-colors '((0 . nil)
(1 . "grey80")
(2 . "grey70")
(3 . "grey60")
(4 . "grey50")
(5 . "grey40")
(6 . "grey30")
(7 . "grey20")
(8 . "grey10"))))You can specify parameters until smeargle-age-threshold. age is set
to smeargle-age-threshold if actual age of changes is older than
smeargle-age-threshold. Default value of smeargle-age-threshold is 7.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x v s") 'smeargle)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x v c") 'smeargle-commits)
;; Highlight regions at opening file
(add-hook 'find-file-hook 'smeargle)
;; Updating after save buffer
(add-hook 'after-save-hook 'smeargle)