Search and highlighting

Search and highlighting

[Rene Reitinger]

Hello everyone!

I am wondering if someone has a function that would provide the following:

A searchfunction like in vi or less. Emacs highlights the appearances of 
the searchstring while in search mode. i would like to keep the 
highlighting even when search mode is finished.

is there already such a feature or has someone created a function to do 
that??

Thanks
Rene

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Re: Search and highlighting

[Peter Lee]

Rene Reitinger <rener@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

> A searchfunction like in vi or less. Emacs highlights the appearances
> of the searchstring while in search mode. i would like to keep the
> highlighting even when search mode is finished.
>
> is there already such a feature or has someone created a function to
> do that??

Have you tried 'M-x highlight-regexp' or 'M-x highlight-phrase' ?

Re: Search and highlighting

[Johan Bockgård]

Rene Reitinger <rener@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

> Emacs highlights the appearances of the searchstring while in search
> mode. i would like to keep the highlighting even when search mode is
> finished.

See the variable isearch-lazy-highlight-cleanup

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