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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: minor mode for highlighting character classes such as non-ascii (bug 47455)
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:51:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eedlcplm.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23925.69978.953904.24758@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Tue, 1 Jun 2021 11:16:53 -0500")

> In the context of bug 47455 the idea emerged that it can be useful
> to have a minor mode that highlights non-ascii characters.  I want
> to ask hear for feedback: does such a mode already exist?  Can it be
> useful to have this minor mode more general such that the highlighted
> character classes become configurable?  Are there possible use cases
> for this beyond non-ascii characters?

The GNU ELPA package 'markchars' has options to highlight
non-ASCII space chars, non-ASCII hyphen chars,
and other customizable patterns, e.g. "[[:nonascii:]]+".



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-01 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-01 16:16 minor mode for highlighting character classes such as non-ascii (bug 47455) Roland Winkler
2021-06-01 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 16:32 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-01 16:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 16:49   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-01 16:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 18:07       ` Drew Adams
2021-06-01 18:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 16:53 ` Daniel Martín
2021-06-01 17:34   ` Roland Winkler
2021-06-01 17:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 17:56       ` Roland Winkler
2021-06-01 20:51 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-06-01 21:45   ` Roland Winkler

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