From f275428354dbb2fbacef0128ed313dd0c7086c74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacopo De Simoi <wilderkde@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 23:24:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Try beacon-mode

---
 .gitmodules | 3 +++
 beacon      | 1 +
 custom.el   | 2 ++
 global.org  | 4 ++++
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
 create mode 160000 beacon

diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index da88695..7b440ee 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -73,3 +73,6 @@
 [submodule "emacs-websocket"]
 	path = emacs-websocket
 	url = https://github.com/ahyatt/emacs-websocket
+[submodule "beacon"]
+	path = beacon
+	url = https://github.com/Malabarba/beacon
diff --git a/beacon b/beacon
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..729338b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/beacon
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 729338b02a0e331a4faf475da9f54771a3470106
diff --git a/custom.el b/custom.el
index d698049..7b8ffde 100644
--- a/custom.el
+++ b/custom.el
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
  '(TeX-newline-function (quote reindent-then-newline-and-indent))
  '(auto-save-file-name-transforms (quote ((".*" "~/.emacs.d/autosaves/\\1" t))))
  '(backup-directory-alist (quote ((".*" . "~/.emacs.d/backup/"))))
+ '(beacon-blink-duration 0.15)
+ '(beacon-color "#969696")
  '(bibretrieve-backends (quote (("msn" . 9) ("mrl" . 8) ("arxiv" . 5))))
  '(bsn-backends (quote (msn)))
  '(case-fold-search t)
diff --git a/global.org b/global.org
index e1616a6..0929e71 100644
--- a/global.org
+++ b/global.org
@@ -986,6 +986,10 @@
      (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.qml\\'" . qml-mode))
    #+END_SRC
 * Specialties
+** beacon
+   =beacon= is a package that helps finding the point when switching
+   buffers.  I like the idea but the aesthetics is a bit baroque.  I
+   should do the same with =flash-hline=
 ** flash-hline
    This function is defined to help in training with new keybindings.  It
    acts as a visual bell which flashes the current line.  It is (arbitrarily)