Bug#902751: drop highlight-current-line.el
Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 08:29:45AM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
>>
>> This seems to be unmaintained, and at least at first glance, the
>> functionality is now built into GNU emacs as hl-line-mode.
>
> Agreed. The finer points to potential differences are lost to me.
>
> One caveat: debian/patches/50_highlight-beyond-fill-column.diff
> uses highlight-current-line's configuration group, thus I suspect
> removing highlight-current-line's emacs-goodies custom configuration
> will break highlight-beyond-fill-column. Is beyond-fill-column also a
> target for removal?
Yes, as Eli Barzilay points out in the stack overflow discussion you
found, the functionality of highlight-beyond-fill-colummn is provided
by whitespace-line-column (I just tested, and the only difference seems
to be the default choice of face to use to highlight.
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