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Emacs: Lin version 1.1.0

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.

The idea is that hl-line-mode cannot work equally well for contexts with competing priorities: (i) line selection, or (ii) simple line highlight. In the former case, the current line needs to be made prominent because it carries a specific meaning of some significance in the given context: the user has to select a line. Whereas in the latter case, the primary mode of interaction does not revolve around the line highlight itself: it may be because the focus is on editing text or reading through the buffer’s contents, so the current line highlight is more of a reminder of the point’s location on the vertical axis.

Below are the release notes

The package is in a stable state. These are some quality-of-life refinements.

  • Updated the colour values of all the faces defined by lin. They now are a bit more vivid. The colours come from my modus-themes.

  • Defined the user option lin-remap-current-line-number, which is set to a non-nil value by default. What it does is to apply the colour of the currently highlighted line (per hl-line-mode) to the line number when display-line-numbers-mode is enabled.

  • Used the correct symbol for the Mu4e headers hook (mu4e-headers-mode-hook instead of mu4e-headers-mode). Thanks to Simon Pugnet for the contribution. The change is small, meaning that Simon does not need to assign copyright to the Free Software Foundation.

  • Added the archive-mode-hook and tar-mode-hook to the lin-mode-hooks. Thanks to Nicolas De Jaeghere for the contribution. It too does not require copyright assignment.

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