Re: follow-link not on mouse-face

[Juri Linkov]

>> Is it possible to do that but including the colon with the line
>> number?
>
> It's possible but only if the line number uses a different face for
> mouse-face.  I don't want the line-number highlight to look different
> since it does the same thing as the highlight on match data, so that
> would mean defining a new face that inherits from 'highlight, and use it
> for the line numbers.  I don't find it terribly elegant.

Surely, it is not elegant, and only introduces unnecessary clutter.
I see nothing wrong with highlighting the whole line (line number +
colon + matching line) as one block with the `highlight' face.

You can try out how well it worked in Emacs 21.4.  I see no reason to
change this.

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Juri Linkov
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