How to always turn off hl-line-mode, i.e., globally

Question

I use Cocoa Emacs 23.1.91 and I want to always have hl-line-mode turned off as I don't like using it. I can turn it off per buffer via M-x hl-line-mode, but that is tedious. Any help is appreciated!

Thanks

Answer 1

if you are having this enabled by the mode (I'm pretty sure you would have to request it explicitly) you can always add this to your .emacs

(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
  (lambda()
    (hl-line-mode -1)
    (global-hl-line-mode -1))
  't
)

as the last line of config. 't is important as it will tell emacs to append this hook at the end of all hooks for the mode

Answer 2

If you want to have it always disabled it's probably best to add this line to your .emacs:

(global-hl-line-mode -1)

Answer 3

M-x global-hl-line-mode

---

doc:

global-hl-line-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `hl-line.el'. (global-hl-line-mode &optional ARG)

Global minor mode to highlight the line about point in the current window. With ARG, turn Global-Hl-Line mode on if ARG is positive, off otherwise.

Global-Hl-Line mode uses the functions global-hl-line-unhighlight' and global-hl-line-highlight' on pre-command-hook' andpost-command-hook'.