Question

This problem is killing my productivity.

The Emacs Starter Kit automatically enables hl-line, which highlights the current line. It makes me unable to see the highlighting on the current line.

I’ve tried setting (global-hl-line-mode nil) and (hl-line-mode nil) globally and added to the mode hooks such as clojure-mode-hook, but it still shows up.

What elisp do I need to disable this feature?

Answer 1

hl-line-mode is turned on by the following line in starter-kit-defuns.el:

(add-hook 'coding-hook 'turn-on-hl-line-mode)

You can either comment out that line, or if you’d rather not touch the starter kit files, you can put the following in your personal init file at ~/.emacs.d/{username}.el:

(remove-hook 'coding-hook 'turn-on-hl-line-mode)