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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: highlight current line when Emacs is idle
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:50:14 -0400
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What's the purpose of hl-column?
Once the current line is highlighted, it should be easy enough
to find the cursor within that line, since you have just one line
to search thru -- right?