Re: Ideas for hl-line-mode

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Sat Oct 01 2011, Eli Zaretskii <eliz-AT-gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:53:13 -0400
>> 
>> > If you provide a list of those modes which you are interested in, we
>> > could see whether the fact they are `special' is a coincidence or
>> > something else.
>> 
>> I'm interested in all present and future modes.
>
> I was asking about those modes where you'd like to see hl-line-mode
> active.
>
>> I don't see anything in the manual that suggests the two sets in
>> question will be/should be/are identical.
>
> From the ELisp manual:
>
>    * If this mode is appropriate only for specially-prepared text
>      produced by the mode itself (rather than by the user typing at the
>      keyboard or by an external file), then the major mode command
>      symbol should have a property named `mode-class' with value
>      `special', put on as follows:
>
>           (put 'funny-mode 'mode-class 'special)
>
>      [...] Modes such as Dired, Rmail, and Buffer List use this feature.

Exactly my point.  I read that text, and it doesn't suggest to me that
horizontal position will be irrelevant in those modes.  Consider an
Emacs tic-tac-toe game, for example.

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