From: Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Make highlight-symbol.el perfect?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:01:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACeWA3j89TUxrhGLqwLANX+jWUX2uHsPoBwuCdijf1-vwgUQwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv61ztnkd3.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
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Isn't that what overlays would do? How is text-property planes better?
-Steven
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:
> > face on matched regions of the buffer. It should just add overlays. The
> > code should get simpler, including removing the overlays when you
> > un-highlight matches, because that's just `(mapcat #'delete-overlay
> > existing-overlays)`.
>
> Better would be to add "text-property planes". So font-lock could
> add&remove its `face' property and highlight-symbol could add&remove its
> own `face' property without conflict.
>
> I think this would make a nice GSoC project.
>
>
> Stefan
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-11 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-11 14:25 Make highlight-symbol.el perfect? Steven Degutis
2013-04-11 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-11 18:01 ` Steven Degutis [this message]
2013-04-12 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier
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