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I find occasionally hard to read the labels from avy or ace-window when they overlap with the cursor (I have cursor-on-non-selected-window set to t). Same issue with ace-window (even more relevant since many times the cursor is sitting at pos 0). Is there a proper way to hide cursors (and visible-marks) temporarily while using avy or ace-window?

A possibility would be to override the faces while using the commands, but I wonder if there is a more proper approach

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  • I don't use either library, but the buffer-local variable you may be interested in setting to nil on a temporary basis is cursor-type.
    – lawlist
    Dec 5, 2022 at 21:54

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This snippet works under the assumption the cursor type is same everywhere. It uses setq-default for buffer-local variables cursor-in-non-selected-windows and cursor-in-non-selected-windows.

;; When the inactive cursor is on one of the avy targets,
;; the overlay and cursor colors mix and the avy sequence gets hard to read.
;; Let's fix this by hiding cursor everywhere.
(defun avy-jump-advice--hide-cursor-temporarily (orig-func &rest args)
  (let ((ct  cursor-type)
        (ctn cursor-in-non-selected-windows))
    (setq-default cursor-in-non-selected-windows nil)
    (setq-default cursor-type nil)
    (apply orig-func args)
    (setq-default cursor-type ct)
    (setq-default cursor-in-non-selected-windows ctn)))
(advice-add 'avy-jump :around #'avy-jump-advice--hide-cursor-temporarily)
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