Version 0.3.0 of package Lin has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x package-list RET.
Lin describes itself as: Make `hl-line-mode' more suitable for selection UIs More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/lin.html Recent NEWS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHANGE LOG OF LIN.EL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The newest release is at the top. For further details, please consult the manual: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/lin>. Version 0.3.0 on 2022-04-08 ═══════════════════════════ ⁃ Changed the source repository from GitLab to SourceHut: <https://git.sr.ht/~protesilaos/lin>. Use the mailing list to start a discussion, report a bug, send a patch, etc.: <https://lists.sr.ht/~protesilaos/lin>. The GitLab URL will serve as a mirror from now on (a GitHub mirror is still available and will remain that way). ⁃ Introduced a buffer-local minor mode as well as its global equivalent: `lin-mode' and `lin-global-mode'. This makes it easier to set up Lin in user init files and/or toggle it on demand. The following shows how the package can be used: ┌──── │ (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) │ │ (setq lin-mode-hooks │ '(bongo-mode-hook │ dired-mode-hook │ elfeed-search-mode-hook │ git-rebase-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 │ tabulated-list-mode-hook)) │ │ (lin-global-mode 1) └──── ⁃ The `lin-face' now has a custom setter which automatically updates its appearance in all buffers where `lin-mode' is enabled. Users might thus prefer to set its value with `customize-set-variable' in order to find the style they like the most. Otherwise setting the value with `setq' is just fine for stable configurations. If, in that case, the user wants to update the face, they must invoke `revert-buffer' or equivalent (e.g. type `g' in Dired with the default key bindings) or evaluate the function `lin-enable-mode-in-buffers'. ⁃ The user option `lin-mode-hooks' now includes `bongo-mode-hook' (from the `bongo' package). Its default value is shown in the sample code above. Version 0.2.0 on 2022-03-16 ═══════════════════════════ Rewrote the entirety of `lin.el' to make the configuration easier and keep the code streamlined. The gist is that now Lin automatically enables `hl-line-mode' in every mode implied by `lin-mode-hooks'. Here is how Lin should be set up henceforth: ┌──── │ (require 'lin) │ │ (setq lin-face 'lin-blue) ; check doc string for alternative styles │ │ (lin-setup) ; Either run this or change `lin-mode-hooks' │ │ (customize-set-variable │ 'lin-mode-hooks ; do not use `setq' with this; `customize-set-variable' runs `lin-setup' automatically │ '(dired-mode-hook │ elfeed-search-mode-hook │ git-rebase-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 │ tabulated-list-mode-hook)) └──── The manual has been updated to reflect those changes: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/lin>. Thanks to: ⁃ Christian Tietze for showing how the Lin face can use colors from the macOS palette. The original contribution was in merge request 2: <https://gitlab.com/protesilaos/lin/-/merge_requests/2>. Now we provide the `lin-mac' and `lin-mac-override-fg' faces. These can be assigned as a value to the user option `lin-face'. ⁃ Damien Cassou for suggesting that Lin sets itself up for a list of mode hooks. The original contribution was in merge request 3: <https://gitlab.com/protesilaos/lin/-/merge_requests/3>. It has now been rewritten as the `lin-mode-hooks' user option, though the idea is the same. ⁃ Federico Stilman for adding `mu4e-headers-mode' to the list that Damien had provided and which now lives as `lin-mode-hooks'. … …
