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Emacs: lin version 0.4.0

Lin is a stylistic enhancement for Emacs’ built-in hl-line-mode. It remaps the hl-line face (or equivalent) buffer-locally to a style that is optimal for major modes where line selection is the primary mode of interaction. In concrete terms: (i) let your theme use a subtle gray to highlight the current line in text-editing buffers like Org, and (ii) render the current line with a more prominent colour in Dired, Ibuffer, et cetera. Why? Because the two types of interaction have different requirements about how intensely the current line should be highlighted.

Sample configuration:

(require 'lin)

(setq lin-face 'lin-blue) ; check doc string for alternative styles

;; You can use this to live update the face:
;;
;; (customize-set-variable 'lin-face 'lin-green)

;; This is the default value
(setq lin-mode-hooks
      '(bongo-mode-hook
        dired-mode-hook
        elfeed-search-mode-hook
        git-rebase-mode-hook
        grep-mode-hook
        ibuffer-mode-hook
        ilist-mode-hook
        ledger-report-mode-hook
        log-view-mode-hook
        magit-log-mode-hook
        mu4e-headers-mode
        notmuch-search-mode-hook
        notmuch-tree-mode-hook
        occur-mode-hook
        org-agenda-mode-hook
        proced-mode-hook
        tabulated-list-mode-hook))

(lin-global-mode 1)

Below are the release notes.

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