unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor?
@ 2007-08-14 22:44 Leo.Hou
  2007-08-15 17:30 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
  2007-08-17 12:47 ` Ken Goldman
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Leo.Hou @ 2007-08-14 22:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hi all,

I am happy with the M-x highligh-phrase command except I need to
manually input the complete word every time.

I wonder if it is possible to create a macro or function in the .emacs
file and assign a shortcut to it to automatically highlight the
current word under cursor to the default "hi-yellow" color.

Similarly I hope to have a key to unhighlight it.

Any tip will be great.

Thanks

Leo

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor?
  2007-08-14 22:44 how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor? Leo.Hou
@ 2007-08-15 17:30 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
  2007-08-15 17:56   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
  2007-08-17 12:47 ` Ken Goldman
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nikolaj Schumacher @ 2007-08-15 17:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

"Leo.Hou" <leo.hou@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wonder if it is possible to create a macro or function in the .emacs
> file and assign a shortcut to it to automatically highlight the
> current word under cursor to the default "hi-yellow" color.

I did once.  It's available here:
http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-symbol/


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor?
  2007-08-15 17:30 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
@ 2007-08-15 17:56   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman (gmail) @ 2007-08-15 17:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nikolaj Schumacher; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> "Leo.Hou" <leo.hou@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if it is possible to create a macro or function in the .emacs
>> file and assign a shortcut to it to automatically highlight the
>> current word under cursor to the default "hi-yellow" color.
> 
> I did once.  It's available here:
> http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-symbol/
> 
> 
> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher


Maybe this page also can help:

   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SearchAtPoint

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor?
  2007-08-14 22:44 how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor? Leo.Hou
  2007-08-15 17:30 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
@ 2007-08-17 12:47 ` Ken Goldman
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ken Goldman @ 2007-08-17 12:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

I use ishl mode, which highlights additional search matches.
Then C-s C-w does what you want.

Leo.Hou wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am happy with the M-x highligh-phrase command except I need to
> manually input the complete word every time.
> 
> I wonder if it is possible to create a macro or function in the .emacs
> file and assign a shortcut to it to automatically highlight the
> current word under cursor to the default "hi-yellow" color.
> 
> Similarly I hope to have a key to unhighlight it.
> 
> Any tip will be great.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2007-08-17 12:47 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2007-08-14 22:44 how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor? Leo.Hou
2007-08-15 17:30 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2007-08-15 17:56   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-08-17 12:47 ` Ken Goldman

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).