Re: Highlight current line when using gud

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Condy Chen <condy0919@gmail.com> writes:

> Before this patch, dark theme users cannot distinguish the line from the
> background even though hl-line-mode is enabled. Personally I can't.

I'm not sure I understand the problem here -- hl-line-mode works fine
for me when using a dark background.

> Furthermore, users must set hl-line-sticky-flag to t to enable
> highlight in all windows or move the point to the source file buffer,
> otherwise only the arrow in fringe is helpful for which line program
> run to. It's too restricted in such a situation.
>
> So I propose to add a new overlay of current line to make gud more
> friendly and deprecate the old one.

The patch seems to add a new overlay mechanism for gud that's switched
on for all people?  And is "the old one" you want to deprecate
hl-line-mode?

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