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How to always turn off hi-line-mode, i.e., globally

Answer 1

+4 A:

M-x global-hl-line-mode

doc:

global-hl-line-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `hl-line.el'. (global-hl-line-mode &optional ARG)

Global minor mode to highlight the line about point in the current window. With ARG, turn Global-Hl-Line mode on if ARG is positive, off otherwise.

Global-Hl-Line mode uses the functions global-hl-line-unhighlight' andglobal-hl-line-highlight' on pre-command-hook' andpost-command-hook'.

Tuomas Pelkonen 2010-03-26 20:45:05

Thanks for responding. I could see from the minibuffer message that this function did execute, however, I still have the hl-line. Perhaps it is a feature of the Ruby mode I am using as part of the Emacs Starter Kit set of initializations. I will investigate there about overriding that feature in Ruby mode.

m7d 2010-03-28 21:45:52

If invoking it interactively, with M-x, you need to prefix it with `universal-argument`. I have this bound to C-u . If putting it in your .emacs, then use `(global-hl-line-mode 0)`. I updated the answer with the documentation for the fn.

Cheeso 2010-05-07 18:02:18

Answer 2

+3 A:

If you want to have it always disabled it's probably best to add this line to your .emacs:

(global-hl-line-mode -1)

Bozhidar Batsov 2010-03-27 05:17:29

Thanks for responding. As per above, I will check out if I can override this in Ruby mode, as it seems to be possibly coming from there (since I don't have it everywhere). I did add that to my .emacs file though to catch it elsewhere and it seemed to work.

m7d 2010-03-28 21:47:11

Answer 3

+2 A:

if you are having this enabled by the mode (I'm pretty sure you would have to request it explicitly) you can always add this to your .emacs

(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
  (lambda()
    (hl-line-mode -1)
    (global-hl-line-mode -1))
  't
)

as the last line of config. 't is important as it will tell emacs to append this hook at the end of all hooks for the mode

radekg 2010-03-29 08:47:41

You solved it, thanks!!!! If I had the reputation I would give you heaps of points, but the system won't allow me to yet.

m7d 2010-03-30 19:04:06

I want to also turn off auto-fill-mode in ruby-mode so I tried:(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook (lambda() (auto-fill-mode -1) (hl-line-mode -1) (global-hl-line-mode -1)) 't)but no dice. The hl-line-mode stuff works as expected, which is great, but I haven't found how to turn off auto fill in ruby-mode. Any ideas?

m7d 2010-03-30 19:10:54

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