I installed emacs 24 and also installed prelude and I wanted to change the theme from zenburn to tango-dark. But the color that the line is highlighted is yellow and I don't like that. I want it to be like the gray color in zenburn.
What should I do? I prefer not to turn off the hl-line but when I tried that I saw that the space between parentheses () are highlighted with the same yellow color. (In zenburn theme that didn't happen). I also know that this is not part of the tango theme because when I run vanilla emacs(sudo emacs) with tango theme no such highlighting happens.
M-x customize-face RET hl-line
will help you. Just pick a face you like (you can type the same command with the other theme installed, just to peek the values you like).That would be an easy fix if you customize your init file (
~/.emacs
,~/.emacs.el
, or~/.emacs.d/init.el
)Turn on hl-line:
Set any color as the background face of the current line:
To keep syntax highlighting in the current line: