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. Set Mouse Buttons
  3. Tabs, Space, Indentation Setup
  4. auto bracket pair
  5. Copy/Cut Line If No Selection
  6. Isearch space for - _
  7. Ido Completion
  8. Icomplete Completion
  9. Move Cursor by camelCase
  10. Stop Cursor Going into Minibuffer Prompt
  11. 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
  8. Open Last Closed File

appearance

  1. Show Line Numbers
  2. Show Cursor Position
  3. Visual Line Mode, Wrap Lines
  4. High Light Current Line
  5. Make Whitespaces Visible
  6. Set Default Window Size
  7. Font Setup
  8. Line Spacing
  9. Set Color Theme
  10. Highlight Paren
  11. Show lambda as λ
  12. Color CSS Hex Code

misc

  1. Default Browser
  2. Misc Init Tips

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