Re: Customizing the color of line highlight

[harven]

Philip <phil.ganchev@gmail.com> writes:

> How can I customize the color of line highlighting? I am using Emacs
> 21 with hl-line.el to highlight the current line, on a 256-color
> xterm. I have:
>
> (setq hl-line-face 'hl-line)
> (global-hl-line-mode t) ; turn it on for all modes by default
>
> And I tried:
>
> (defface hl-line '((t (:background "gray90")))
>     "Face to use for `hl-line-face'." :group 'hl-line)
>
> (set-face-background 'highlight "#eee")
>
> (set-face-background 'highlight "goldenrod yellow")
>
> But it's still the default gray, which is too dark on a white
> background. M-x list-colors-display shows all the colors fine.

The following works for me.

(set-face-background 'hl-line "gray80")

You can also access the list of faces with M-x list-faces-display
and modify it from there.