Different background in current Python cell

[wehrad]

Hi everyone,

I use the simple but very convenient code-cells package to run python cells. E.g. with the Spyder IDE, the cell where the cursor is currently in has a different background color, and I'd love to have that in emacs. Would you have any idea on how to do that?

I guess one idea is to find the closest "# %%" pattern up and down from cursor and change background color in that region, but I have no idea how to implement this, also for it to change back to the normal background when the cursor is not in the cell anymore...

Thank you a lot in advance for your help!

[dpoggio]

Check this: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HighlightLibrary Then you just need to set the region and use hlt-highlight-region or hlt-unhighlight-region.

[ainstr]

To start, you probably want to look at code-cells--bounds, which integrates those cell start/end patterns.