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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: recommended techniques for "temporary highlighting"?
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> From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:12:37 +0900
> 
> What I'm wondering is:  What's the best way to do this sort of
> temporary highlighting?

Did you look at pulse.el?  We use it in Grep and in M-., for example.