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?
>
> Looking at it (without trying it), I'm not sure, but I suppose so.

How am I to know whether it works if you don't try it?

> However, please see my other email about using a face instead of a user
> option (variable). Wouldn't that also take care of this problem? That is, if
> there is no face variable, and users change the face itself, then that would
> be immediately reflected in the overlay, no?

It would.  But it would break other people's customizations as well.

> BTW, what is this for: ":require 'hl-line"? (I'm not familiar with it.)

Try without, maybe it's not needed.