From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: 31953@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: VanL <van@scratch.space>
Subject: bug#31953: [VanL] Re: bug#31953: feature request - `highlight-rx` interactively
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 02:35:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8yirgk4.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zkqsx1c.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:54:39 +0200")
(Please keep the debbugs address in the Cc list -- otherwise the bug
tracker won't get the message.)
>>> A usecase is to mark a region or string of few words
>>> and to call `highlight-rx` which does a verbatim highlight.
>>
>>Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you're requesting here.
>>
>>highlight-regexp is an alias for hi-lock-face-buffer which just does
>>some highlighting, as far as I can see.
>
> I was wanting to migrate from regexp to rx syntax for highlighting.
`rx' returns a normal regexp, so you can use whatever you want, can't
you?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-15 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-24 7:47 bug#31953: feature request - `highlight-rx` interactively Van L
2019-10-09 22:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-14 23:54 ` bug#31953: [VanL] " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-15 0:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-15 2:39 ` Phil Sainty
2019-10-15 7:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-15 8:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-15 8:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-15 9:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-15 14:34 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-03 22:27 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-20 6:34 ` bug#31953: [VanL] " VanL
2019-10-20 15:49 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-20 23:35 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-10-21 21:19 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-02 8:30 ` VanL
2019-11-18 21:42 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-19 12:34 ` VanL
2019-11-19 21:39 ` VanL
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