From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Buchs, Kevin J." <buchs.kevin@mayo.edu>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: highlighter, i.e. yellow marker functionality
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 12:41:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce2ea955-b732-46ad-a380-0e0f364b0971@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31062c$97skh2@ironport10.mayo.edu>
> Wondering if anyone has written or can recommend a function
> (built-in/add-on) that would give the ability similar to a yellow
> marker, e.g. where MB1 down would set the background color of all
> text
> over which the pointer passes. Bonus points for not marking
> beginning of
> line and end of line white space, just like one would do with a real
> marker. Thanks.
Yes, see library highlight.el.
http://www.emacswiki.org/HighlightLibrary
In particular, `hlt-highlighter', which is bound by default to
`C-x mouse-2', and `hlt-eraser', which is bound by default to
`C-x S-mouse-2'.
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2014-10-01 19:23 highlighter, i.e. yellow marker functionality Buchs, Kevin J.
2014-10-01 19:41 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-10-01 19:45 ` Drew Adams
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