Re: highlight confusion in agenda

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Michael Gilbert <mcg@gilbert.org> writes:

Hi Michael,

>>> But although I am not very mouse-oriented, as an Aquamacs user I
>>> find that the line where the mouse happens to be hovering (not
>>> having selected anything) is mostly highlighted in exactly the same
>>> was as the selected line. This is a cause of frequent error on my
>>> part. I only notice this in the agenda, not in other files.
>>> 
>>> Is there any way to turn off the latter effect?
>> 
>> Untested:
>> 
>> (add-hook 'org-finalize-agenda-hook
>>   (lambda () (remove-text-properties
>> 	       (point-min) (point-max) '(mouse-face t))))
>> 
>> This might also turn off the mouse bindings in the agenda, at least
>> some of them.  But maybe this is actually also what you'd like to
>> have....
>
> Tested. Fantastic. Doesn't disable mouse-bindings completely, but
> totally solves my problem. Thank you so much.

A littlebit less radical solution would be to change either the
`hl-line' or the `highlight' face so that they don't look identical.  Do
do that, do

  M-x customize-face hl-line RET

or

  M-x customize-face highlight RET

Bye,
Tassilo