Highlight an active line

Is there some option or plugin, that highlights a current line, i.e., the line with the cursor. In many other programming editors, I was able do enable such option. It makes very convenient. You can see right away on which line your editing cursor is just by a glance.

`hl-line-mode`

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Alternative: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/lin

I wouldn't say `lin` is an alternative, more an enhancement to the built-in `hl-line-mode`.

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I use https://github.com/Malabarba/beacon

Beacon and Pulsar are nice solutions

I been looking for this package name forever. I thought it was called lighthouse 😂

does it only work on emacs V28+?

+1 for beacon, I never lose my cursor anymore

;; Version: 0.4.0 ;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "27.1")) Which versions are you on?

I mean, you're not wrong

I switched from beacon to [pulsar.el](https://protesilaos.com/emacs/pulsar) because beacon sometimes was buggy.

If there's a bug, you should report it... But if you can upgrade to v28, you'll be glad you did.

`(setq beacon-color "#cdcd00")` if you are using the solarized theme.

26.3

I will try to upgrade

OK, i've installed emacs V28, so this addon will work, but when I do M-x pulsar-\*anything\*, it only does once. How can I make it permanent? I am a newbie in emacs and just in the process of learning it. Just going through the tutorial. Please, help.

What's the difference between those 2?

I don't know. I use pulsar but they seem to do the same thing.

I use `(pulsar-global-mode t)` to enable pulsar globally.

To make settings permanent in Emacs, you edit your init file. Everything that is in your init file will be called upon startup. So if you include `(pulsar-global-mode t)` in your init file, it will be called at every startup.