Org mode table, show different background on current row, or, alternate even/odd org rows

Question

On wider tables in org mode, it is hard to see the current line.

In emacs org mode table, is there a way to display different background for the current row, or alternate background for even/odd rows?

(I am not concerned with export, although if the even/odd alternate background would export that would be great as well)

Thanks

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '14 at 19:51

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Not that I know of, but (when editing) you can use M-x hl-line-mode to clearly see the current row highlighted.

answered Nov 20 '14 at 19:51

fniessen

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I was hoping for a more specific approach but this is a good suggestion in lack of an org solution. – mzimmermann Nov 21 '14 at 23:12
I'd like it too ;-) OTOH, for HTML export, you can easily apply CSS rules to get that effect too. GitHub style does it (for example, see https://github.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven). – fniessen Nov 22 '14 at 07:50

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 22 '16 at 14:35

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The package stripe-buffer provides stripe-table-mode which provides odd/even row highlighting for org tables. (It also gives you stripe-listify-buffer which provides similar row highlighting for any list-style buffer like dired, ibuffer, etc.)

answered Dec 22 '16 at 14:35

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Org mode table, show different background on current row, or, alternate even/odd org rows

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