How to highlight ivy candidates in the manner of hl-line?

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Coming from helm, I am giving swiper and ivy-mode a shot.

I'm looking for a way to highlight candidates in the way hl-line-mode does: full width background.

Is your issue that the entire line is not highlighted but only the text part of the line? — Jules, Commented Mar 7, 2016 at 14:36
Yes exactly. I don't really know how hl-line works, but it looks like it uses something else than :background whatever. — Mathieu Marques, Commented Mar 7, 2016 at 14:42
It seems like there isn't a very easy way to do this other than looking through the hl-line source code and adding that to highlight the current match in swiper. Maybe you can create an issue on the swiper github? — Jules, Commented Mar 7, 2016 at 15:17

abo-abo · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-07 21:43:41Z

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You probably want:

(setq ivy-format-function 'ivy-format-function-line)

answered Mar 7, 2016 at 21:43

abo-abo

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I added a gif to best demonstrate what I am referring to. See how hl-line highlight current line (where point is), as opposed to how swiper highlight current candidate. I am unable to reproduce hl-line's appearance with (set-face-attribute 'ivy-current-match nil :background foo).
– Mathieu Marques
Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 16:12
Nevermind, got it to work with latest swiper. Thanks :)
– Mathieu Marques
Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 16:15

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