How to have yank visually flash the pasted text

Question

I'd like to be able to paste text into a buffer and have emacs give a visual confirmation by flashing the region (highlighting and unhighlighting) the text that was pasted in the buffer. Is there an example of how to do this?

Answer 1

There are three ways that I know of:

• volatile-highlights: an external package which gives you visual feedback for many operations, including yanking.

• pulse: a built-in library you can leverage to achieve what you want. You can advice yank to use pulse-momentary-highlight-region, for instance.

• goggles: another external package. This one uses pulse to do the highlighting. From its README:

This library is the holy counterpart of evil-goggles. Another comparable library is volatile-highlights, which does not use pulse. By setting goggle-pulse to nil, the goggles-mode behaves similarly to the volatile-highlights-mode.