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**jakobud** · January 13, 2016, 6:54am

Is there any word on this bug? Does anyone know how to fix the current syntax highlighting theme to fix this problem? Or is it a bug with ST itself?

**BomBin** · January 13, 2016, 6:57am

Any fix?

**jakobud** · January 13, 2016, 7:00am

Bump… Please fix.

**anon57419890** · January 13, 2016, 7:04am

Casting my vote for this issue to be addressed…

**tphalp** · January 13, 2016, 7:06am

+1

**anon57419890** · January 13, 2016, 7:06am

This is fixed in the latest Dev build 2170 Awesome!

**julien_c** · January 13, 2016, 7:06am

Nice! I was waiting for this to be resolved too.

**jakobud** · January 13, 2016, 7:09am

Woo

**anon57419890** · January 13, 2016, 7:09am

I’ve noticed that this bug isn’t fixed when in distraction free mode (which, ironically, is kinda distracting )

I believe the change that fixed this outside of distraction free mode was:
“Line highlights are drawn in front of text background highlights, and alpha channels are supported”

**jeffdeville** · January 13, 2016, 7:22am

Highlighting the current line appears to be broken in 2181. I’ve tried a lot of different themes, and either none of the themes support it, or the feature isn’t working at the moment. I’d edit the themes, but I can’t figure out where they’re all stored on the file system.

**pedromagnus** · January 13, 2016, 7:29am

Hi, I ended here looking for some themes to customize ST2
For having line highlight (option I missed too and activated it) just add this line to your settings:

"highlight_line": true,

**jeffdeville** · January 13, 2016, 7:30am

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Workaround for the no current line highlighting
##########

I fought w/ this for awhile, and it appears that the current line highlighting only works if you have not disabled the gutter.
// Set to false to hide the gutter altogether
“gutter”: true,

Hope that helps track down the bug, since I would like to remove the gutter, personally.

**louisR** · January 13, 2016, 9:10am

Hi

is it possible to only highlight the line for certain type of files ?

Thanks

**FichteFoll** · January 13, 2016, 9:10am

Yes. Open the file type you want line highlighting for (or just open aa new file and set the syntax manually). Then go to “Preferences > Settings - more > syntax-specific - user” and insert the highlight_line setting there.

**niccolo.mineo** · January 24, 2016, 6:59pm

Hi, is it possible to highlight the number directly? As shown in VIM, below:

**Hello** · February 3, 2016, 10:13am

how to open the file you show above

**Nieb** · February 10, 2017, 9:30pm

Any luck figuring out how to highlight the line number text?

**FichteFoll** · February 10, 2017, 10:45pm

I don’t know of a way to do this, so I’ll say: no, it’s still not possible.

**Nieb** · February 11, 2017, 4:29pm

Bummer, thanks anyways.

**Radish** · October 24, 2017, 10:24pm

Well, I hereby request that this “bug” be un-“fixed”. Or, perhaps more realistically, become subject to a preferences setting that re-enables the old behavior y’all describe.

See, I have this here snazzy highlighting for Knockout html files. Can you guess what happens when lineHighlight is applied?

That’s right: EVIL.

So, a preference to re-enable the old behavior would be appreciated. Really nice, though, would be if I could specify something like the following in my color scheme file:

<key>scope</key>
<string>scope.with.background.color, lineHighlight scope.with.background.color</string>

Which would explicitly tell Sublime Text to ignore lineHighlight in favor of the scope’s normal background color. Alternatively, you could put 'lineHighlight scope.with.background.color' in a separate scope block, where you could control exactly how the scope’s color changes in response to the caret being on the same line.

Highlight current line