From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Text highlighter functiontionality Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:47:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87skgnlh62.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248353312 24887 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2009 12:48:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Teemu Likonen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 23 14:48:25 2009 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 1MTxie-0008Gz-BD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:48:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTxid-0007tL-O0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTxhi-0007IN-LU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTxhd-0007BW-NY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46548 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTxhd-0007BF-Dl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.246]:12186) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTxhd-0005VL-2H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b6so907748ana.21 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:47:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=msTpe/lUiIQlu+sGRx99VogwFkvv7tOt5I9EvFOX2Ls=; b=S5mS3gu1cmgDVKXe5w/SPY7Fzvq1uJdrcen1SFMs8sECwBAUGBOeO8hYM/fRu6ZhuQ JP5oBOBS6pnmwaMXUBzcbYnvwlQY5Ps9VhEkv75paCjHyxVXaUwW6JTwq52IUyNDqQj6 Qs49UULtAsUXZrAWGssI64dHB2IZ21Kkb9fSY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xXiaLS6i8x9eHXwUWvXK5QMoDFsElMZUE93dmGpkrOrcfRb6TjDx9JbqaJ7sV68mjY cyU6CFKO91UiaId+z6q0atzZ2frZ6XL22D1BhYUhIX9HqauIceNGDpHBjNc6y7QCMRmJ 8+LsTuN2AGRsAR8lQtRCqoP7L/pbl3FIiVyCM= Original-Received: by 10.100.197.2 with SMTP id u2mr2765059anf.138.1248353235860; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:47:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87skgnlh62.fsf@iki.fi> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:66355 Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-07-23 04:44 (-0700), stephan zimmer wrote: > >> Is anyone aware of a text highlighter functionality in emacs? I would >> like to highlight (possibly non-connected) portions of text in a >> buffer in such a way, that the highlighting persists within one emacs >> session (i.e., when I change the buffer and return to it again, the >> highlighting should still be there). > > Sounds pretty much like "M-s h r" (highlight-regexp) to me. There are also markerpens: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MarkerPens