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Subject: Emacs pretest: highlight line number in display-line-numbers-mode?
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The new display-line-numbers-mode in the Emacs pretest works nicely
and seems faster than linum.  Thanks Eli.

Is there a way to highlight the current line number on the fringe in a
different face where the cursor is?  Like hl-line-mode except just the
line number is bold or in a different colour?

sivaram
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