From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: arbitrary persistent highlight Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <51d4b622-bc0d-4b9d-a459-eceb6202e20d@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218778925 11028 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2008 05:42:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:42:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 15 07:42:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KTs5Q-0006C4-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:42:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTs4U-0001Rg-5m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:41:58 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218775812 32766 127.0.0.1 (15 Aug 2008 04:50:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:50:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161305 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56651 Archived-At: kin wrote: > I'm looking for a way to highlight arbitrary line(s) in a buffer > persistently, for a emacs session. Is there a way? put this as first line into your file: -*- eval: (highlight-regexp "\"\\([^\"]+\\)\"") -*- you can add a commont char in front. You'll need to tweak the regex of course. The above highlights between double quotes. You can also use highlight-lines-matching-regexp instead. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84