Re: Ideas for hl-line-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dave Abrahams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:17:25 -0400
> 
> > Does
> >
> >    (eq (get major-mode 'mode-class) 'special)
> >
> > do what you want?
> 
> Cool, I was hoping someone would point out an existing facility I didn't
> know about...
> 
> Oh, interesting.  It's probably a very good heuristic, though I'm not
> sure the description of this mode-class as "only for specially-prepared
> text" really implies that horizontal position is irrelevant.

If you provide a list of those modes which you are interested in, we
could see whether the fact they are `special' is a coincidence or
something else.