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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	"'Teemu Likonen'" <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Text highlighter functiontionality
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:18:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C2FFE3B67FB3400A8BBF592F65D2E1B9@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50907230547l38ba6ad2lebbe3596919ff149@mail.gmail.com>

> >> Is anyone aware of a text highlighter functionality in 
> >> emacs? I would like to highlight (possibly non-connected)
> >> portions of text in a buffer in such a way, that the
> >> highlighting persists within one emacs
> >> session (i.e., when I change the buffer and return to it again, the
> >> highlighting should still be there).
> >
> > Sounds pretty much like "M-s h r" (highlight-regexp) to me.
> 
> There are also markerpens:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MarkerPens

That is not the generic page about this; it is only one of the libraries that
offers such a "marker-pen" or "highlighter" feature.

This is the generic page for this topic:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HighlightTemporarily

In particular, library highlight.el lets you highlight using a "marker pen", but
also in many other ways. This is its page:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HighLight. And its highlighting can be with
either text properties or overlays. AFAIK, it is the most flexible of the
various approaches available.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-23 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-23 11:44 Text highlighter functiontionality stephan.zimmer
2009-07-23 12:25 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-23 12:47   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-23 16:18     ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.3039.1248365904.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-24 15:44       ` stephan.zimmer
2009-07-24 17:03         ` Thierry Volpiatto

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