Subject: bug#51580: hl-line-mode doesn't override global-hl-line-mode in current buffer

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 12:28:51 +0100

Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]> writes:

> > It seems like there is currently no way to use `global-hl-line-mode'
> > while disabling it for individual buffers.
>
> There is one: (setq-local global-hl-line-mode nil).

Here, that leaves an overlay in the buffer.  Does it not do that for you?

[You didn't quote it, but I wrote "(setq-default global-hl-line-mode
nil)" in the bug report.  That was a typo.  I meant to write
"(setq-local global-hl-line-mode nil)".]