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 21:51:34 -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 1218778991 11122 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2008 05:43:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:43:11 +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 07:44:03 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 1KTs6V-0006Ky-3q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:44:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTs5Y-0001ms-L7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:43:04 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a8g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218775895 2177 127.0.0.1 (15 Aug 2008 04:51:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:51:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a8g2000prf.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:161306 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:56652 Archived-At: O, if you just want to highligh in a session, just use: M-x highlight-lines-matching-regexp Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84 On Aug 14, 9:50 pm, Xah wrote: > 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=91http://xahlee.org/ > > =E2=98=84