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**vjekoslav** · April 20, 2016, 2:01pm

The topic pretty much describes my problem. I would like to use line highlight without gutter. Is there a way to achieve this?

Thanks,
Vjekoslav

**kingkeith** · April 20, 2016, 2:19pm

Confirmed on ST3 build 3111 on Windows 7x64 and Ubuntu x64, fresh state, having the following in the Packages\User\Preferences.sublime-settings file doesn’t highlight the current line:

{
    "highlight_line": true,
    "gutter": false
}

Guessing this is a bug, but maybe it is intentional… I can think of some scenarios where it would be undesirable to highlight the current line when there is no gutter, for example in the find/replace textboxes…

**kingkeith** · April 20, 2016, 2:20pm

I see a bug has been filed here: https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/586

**vjekoslav** · April 20, 2016, 2:37pm

Yeah, that’s good to see. Although it’s been almost 2 years since the bug was reported so it doesn’t give me much hope that the bug will be fixed.

**mg979** · October 15, 2017, 1:32am

+1 for this…

**addons_zz** · March 17, 2019, 9:58pm

As a work around, you can disable the line_numbers and fold_buttons settings, which will drastically reduce the “gutter” area size:

–>

github.com

evandrocoan/SublimePackageDefault/blob/master/toogle_settings.py

import sublime
import sublime_plugin

per_window_settings = {}
capture_new_window_from = None

def set_settings(window_views, active_view_settings):

    for view in window_views:

        for setting in active_view_settings:
            view.settings().set(setting, active_view_settings[setting])


class ToggleSettingsCommand(sublime_plugin.WindowCommand):
    """
    Given several settings, toggle their values.
    window.run_command("toggle_settings", {"settings": ["fold_buttons", "line_numbers"]})

    @param same_value, if True, will set either all setting to True or False, depending on the first

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Keybind on some .sublime-keymap

[
	{ "keys": ["ctrl+k", "ctrl+n"], "command": "toggle_settings", "args":
		{"settings": ["line_numbers", "fold_buttons", "mini_diff"]}, "same_value": true },
]

**vjekoslav** · July 14, 2021, 10:02am

Hi, I hate to necro my own thread, but I just upgraded to Sublime 4 and this bug is still present and I can se that bug report kingkeith linked is still open. How come?

**UltraInstinct05** · July 14, 2021, 10:30am

There could be several reasons

SublimeHQ is still a pretty small team (perhaps only ~2 engineers working on ST) and the current list of open issues is ~1800. I guess they need to effectively focus on addressing issues that are affecting a significant proportion of users and can’t afford to focus on niche issues.
The issue might not have reached the necessary priority.

Highlight_line is not working with gutter disabled