Focus

Focus provides focus-mode that dims the text of surrounding sections, similar to iA Writer's Focus Mode.

Installation

You can install Focus using elpa. It's available on melpa:

M-x package-install focus

The package has only been tried on Emacs 24.4 and 24.5, but should work on Emacs 24 or higher.

Usage

Enable the focus-mode with M-x focus-mode .

Also, focus-read-only-mode is provided, which is optimized for continuous reading. It inhibits change in the buffer, hides the cursor and provides bindings for moving between things (defined in Thing At Point. One can toggle focus-read-only-mode with M-x focus-read-only-mode or C-c C-q if focus-mode is enabled.

Some bindings are provided for simple navigation and exiting focus-read-only-mode.

Keybinding	Description
n	Jump to next thing
SPC	Jump to next thing
p	Jump to previous thing
S-SPC	Jump to previous thing
i	Exit focus-read-only-mode
q	Exit focus-read-only-mode

Example

This is what it looks like:

Light Theme (leuven)	Dark Theme (monokai)