Emacs: High Light Current Line

By Xah Lee. Date: .
emacs hl-line-mode screenshot 2015-08-12
emacs global-hl-line-mode

Alt+x hl-line-mode to toggle on/off for current buffer.

Alt+x global-hl-line-mode to toggle globally.

Turn on by Default

Put this in your emacs init file: 

;; highlight current line
(global-hl-line-mode 1)

Emacs Customization

  1. Emacs init file
  2. What's Major Mode
  3. What's Minor Mode
  4. M-x customize
  5. Organize Init File
  6. Byte Compile Elisp
  7. What's Hook
  8. Avoid Lambda in Hook
  9. Environment Variables in Emacs
  10. Check OS, Version, Host Name
  11. Check Defined/Loaded

packages

  1. Install Packages
  2. Install Package Manually

text editing

  1. Define Keys
  2. Tabs, Space, Indentation Setup
  3. Brackets electric-pair-mode
  4. Isearch space for - _
  5. Ido Completion
  6. Icomplete Completion
  7. Move Cursor by camelCase
  8. Stop Cursor Going into Minibuffer Prompt
  9. Sync Clipboard with Linux X11

file

  1. Default Major Mode
  2. Auto Backup Off
  3. Auto Save
  4. Restore Opened Files
  5. Save Cursor Position
  6. Dired Customization
  7. Open Recently Opened

appearance

  1. Show Line Numbers
  2. Show Cursor Position
  3. Visual Line Mode, Wrap Lines
  4. High Light Current Line
  5. Font Setup
  6. Show Formfeed ^L as Line
  7. Line Spacing
  8. Set Color Theme
  9. Highlight Brackets ()[]{}
  10. Show lambda as λ
  11. Color CSS Hex Code
  12. Default Window Size

misc

  1. Default Browser
  2. Misc Init Tips

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