Re: Ideas for hl-line-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dave Abrahams <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:40:21 -0400
> 
> I just realized that there are a whole bunch of modes where the
> horizontal position of the cursor just doesn't matter, and that these
> correspond almost exactly to where I want hl-line-mode active.  In these
> modes would also want to make the cursor very close to the color of the
> highlight.  It would be nice if emacs had a way for modes to represent
> that they're "vertical-position-only modes" so that this sort of thing
> could be set up programmatically.

Does

   (eq (get major-mode 'mode-class) 'special)

do what you want?