From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Buchs, Kevin J." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: highlighter, i.e. yellow marker functionality Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:23:15 -0500 Message-ID: <31062c$97skh2@ironport10.mayo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412191417 31033 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2014 19:23:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 19:23:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 01 21:23:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XZPUo-0005Rw-4G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:23:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58266 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZPUn-0000yr-Nj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:23:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZPUU-0000yh-P4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:23:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZPUO-0008Pc-F9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail9.mayo.edu ([129.176.114.197]:58662) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZPUO-0008PW-AT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: from roedlp005a.mayo.edu (HELO mail10.mayo.edu) ([10.146.65.140]) by ironport9-poly.mayo.edu with ESMTP; 01 Oct 2014 14:23:02 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqEEAHRTLFQKgNEM/2dsb2JhbABdA4c8y2WDIYElAXuELRUEAUonAiYCHU8IAQGIP6gnjyiGWYEojmooBYJiDoFFBYtVhhilOoMYAQID Original-Received: from essexmb.mayo.edu (HELO msgoms04.mayo.edu) ([10.128.209.12]) by ironport10.mayo.edu with ESMTP; 01 Oct 2014 14:23:02 -0500 X-EsetResult: clean, is OK X-EsetId: D00A7A3EC335313081472A User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 129.176.114.197 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100211 Archived-At: Wondering if anyone has written or can recommend a function (built-in/add-on) that would give the ability similar to a yellow marker, e.g. where MB1 down would set the background color of all text over which the pointer passes. Bonus points for not marking beginning of line and end of line white space, just like one would do with a real marker. Thanks. -- Kevin Buchs Research Computer Services Phone: 507-538-5459 Mayo Clinic 200 1st. St SW Rochester, MN 55905