On , 15 May 1999, SL Baur wrote: It looks like RMS didn't change anything else than the file name (it should be curline.el instead of current-line.el), so here it is: ;;; curline.el --- Display the current line with a distinctive face. ;; Author: Tudor Hulubei <tudor(a)gnu.org&gt; ;; Maintainer: Tudor Hulubei <tudor(a)gnu.org&gt; ;; Created: April 1999 ;; Version: $Revision: 1.8 $ ;; Keywords: current line ;; $Id: curline.el,v 1.8 1999/05/16 12:30:57 tudor Exp $ ;; curline.el is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as ;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at ;; your option) any later version. ;; ;; curline.el is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU ;; General Public License for more details. ;; ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ;;; History: ;;; Commentary: ;;; ;;; In order to activate the `current-line' mode in the major modes ;;; defined in `current-line-major-modes' you would have to put the ;;; following code in your .emacs: ;;; ;;; (current-line-mode t) ;;; ;;; `current-line-major-modes' can be modified to include other modes ;;; as well. To deactivate the mode, execute (current-line-mode nil). ;;; Code: (provide 'current-line) (defgroup current-line nil "Variables dealing with the display of the current line." :group 'environment) (defface current-line-face '((((class color)) (:foreground "white" :background "blue"))) "Face used to highlight the current line." :group 'current-line) ;;;###autoload (defcustom current-line-major-modes (list 'Buffer-menu-mode 'dired-mode 'compilation-mode 'vm-summary-mode 'rmail-summary-mode) "A list of major modes in which the current line is displayed with a distinctive face. Modify this as needed." :group 'current-line) ;; Internal variables. (defvar current-line-extent/overlay nil) (make-variable-buffer-local 'current-line-extent/overlay) ;; Hide the difference between GNU Emacs (which uses overlays) and ;; XEmacs (which uses extents). XEmacs supports overlays too, maybe ;; it would be ok to use overlays for both Emacsen. (defun clm-make-extent/overlay (begin end) (if (fboundp 'make-extent) (make-extent begin end) (if (fboundp 'make-overlay) (make-overlay begin end)))) (defun clm-set-extent/overlay-property (extent/overlay property value) (if (fboundp 'make-extent) (set-extent-property extent/overlay property value) (if (fboundp 'make-overlay) (overlay-put extent/overlay property value)))) (defun clm-set-extent/overlay-endpoints (extent/overlay begin end) (if (fboundp 'make-extent) (set-extent-endpoints extent/overlay begin end) (if (fboundp 'make-overlay) (move-overlay extent/overlay begin end)))) ;;; GNU Emacs has different names for `point-at-bol' and ;;; `point-at-eol'. (when (not (fboundp 'point-at-bol)) (defalias 'point-at-bol 'line-beginning-position)) (when (not (fboundp 'point-at-eol)) (defalias 'point-at-eol 'line-end-position)) (defun current-line-update () (when (member major-mode current-line-major-modes) (unless current-line-extent/overlay (setq current-line-extent/overlay (clm-make-extent/overlay 1 1)) (clm-set-extent/overlay-property current-line-extent/overlay 'face 'current-line-face) (clm-set-extent/overlay-property current-line-extent/overlay 'priority 1)) (clm-set-extent/overlay-endpoints current-line-extent/overlay (point-at-bol) (point-at-eol)))) ;;;###autoload (defun current-line-mode (arg) "Display the current line with a distinctive face (current-line-face). If ARG is nil, the appearance of the current line is not changed." (interactive "P") (if arg (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'current-line-update) (remove-hook 'post-command-hook 'current-line-update)) nil) ;;; curline.el ends here