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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, larsi@gnu.org, 53771@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why M-x highlight-regexp does not work after sort in tabulated-list-mode?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 07:03:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yw7ddnoOxCqGddGJ@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qsxnt57.fsf@web.de>

* Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> [2022-08-31 03:41]:
> It was your Bug#53771.  We didn't come to a nice solution in that
> report, so your memory is fine in that regard.

Thank you for reminder. I found it now here:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=53771#27

> The problem was that you are working with a non-font-lock-mode buffer,
> so highlighting is not automatically updated.  OTOH, repeating
> highlight-regexp with the same pattern does nothing.  So I think you
> must first remove the pattern (unhighlight) and then add it again.  You
> can try to do this automatically.

I do think that tabulated list mode should then check for highlighting
patterns and then apply it.

-- 
Jean

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-31  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-30 21:11 Why M-x highlight-regexp does not work after sort in tabulated-list-mode? Jean Louis
2022-08-31  0:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-08-31  4:03   ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-08-31  4:19   ` Jean Louis
2022-08-31  4:29     ` Jean Louis
2022-09-02  0:11     ` bug#53771: " Michael Heerdegen
2022-08-31 21:09   ` Jean Louis

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