From 89d1f3ed6f33e9ff8b849c4b235de069bcb3db40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siddhartha Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:14:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add a tip in the readme regarding using a mode indicator E.g. telephone-line or powerline --- README.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 75e11a0..d848218 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -156,6 +156,14 @@ The most useful towers at the moment are Vim tower, Lisp tower (containing Symex See the `Keybinding Model `_ for keys that work in every mode, including navigations for getting around, and transformations for moving things around, or deleting, transforming them in some way. +Tips +==== + +Mode Line Feedback +------------------ + +Rigpa comes with many modes -- View mode, Window mode, Buffer mode, Line mode, and more. To keep track of which mode you're in at any time, it's useful to have visual feedback in the form of a color-coded mode indicator in your mode line, with colors that are different enough to give you a clue at a glance whether you're in the right mode. Rigpa currently defines and maintains Evil states corresponding to every Rigpa mode in order to benefit from existing Emacs tools that have already been written to track your Evil state. So you can use any of these existing plugins for this purpose, including powerline and `telephone-line `_. For example, you could use `this config for telephone-line `_.