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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Highlight text
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:41:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy22k6obb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADm7Y4mPMg0+3YEEzX6wf0XuHzwbhhWjTN+9EWywLDAoRJD55A@mail.gmail.com> (Anand Tamariya's message of "Wed, 9 Feb 2022 19:08:54 +0530")

> Can somebody point me to a piece of code in the display engine which is
> responsible for highlighting text upon selection?

It's not in the display engine (any more).
It's in `redisplay--update-region-highlight`.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-09 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-09 13:38 Highlight text Anand Tamariya
2022-02-09 14:05 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-02-09 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-09 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-02-11  4:11   ` Anand Tamariya
2022-02-11  4:46     ` Po Lu

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