Re: address@hidden: customizing hl-line-face should reset global-hl-line-overlay to nil]

[martin rudalics]

> Customizing `hl-line-face' has no immediate effect. You must save the
> customization, quit Emacs, and restart Emacs, to see the effect.

Would the attached patch help?

*** hl-line.el.~1.31.~  Wed Feb  1 09:17:44 2006
--- hl-line.el  Mon Aug 28 15:58:58 2006
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  ;;; Code:

+ (defvar hl-line-overlay nil
+   "Overlay used by Hl-Line mode to highlight the current line.")
+ (make-variable-buffer-local 'hl-line-overlay)
+ 
+ (defvar global-hl-line-overlay nil
+   "Overlay used by Global-Hl-Line mode to highlight the current line.")
+ 
  (defgroup hl-line nil
    "Highlight the current line."
    :version "21.1"
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  (defcustom hl-line-face 'highlight
    "Face with which to highlight the current line."
    :type 'face
+   :require 'hl-line
+   :set (lambda (symbol value)
+          (set-default symbol value)
+        (dolist (buffer (buffer-list))
+          (with-current-buffer buffer
+            (when hl-line-overlay
+              (overlay-put hl-line-overlay 'face hl-line-face))))
+        (when global-hl-line-overlay
+          (overlay-put global-hl-line-overlay 'face hl-line-face)))
    :group 'hl-line)

  (defcustom hl-line-sticky-flag t
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  This variable is expected to be made buffer-local by modes.")

- (defvar hl-line-overlay nil
-   "Overlay used by Hl-Line mode to highlight the current line.")
- (make-variable-buffer-local 'hl-line-overlay)
- 
- (defvar global-hl-line-overlay nil
-   "Overlay used by Global-Hl-Line mode to highlight the current line.")
- 
  ;;;###autoload
  (define-minor-mode hl-line-mode
    "Buffer-local minor mode to highlight the line about point.
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