Jumping between highlighted regexps

Jumping between highlighted regexps

[CloudStrife]

Hi all,
I would like to know if there is a way to jump between regexps that
are highlighted using 'M-x highlight-regexp'
Regards
Cloud

Re: Jumping between highlighted regexps

[David Hansen]

On 16 Mar 2007 10:26:41 -0700 CloudStrife wrote:

> I would like to know if there is a way to jump between regexps that
> are highlighted using 'M-x highlight-regexp'

How about using `occur'?  `next-error' and `previous-error' work as
expected.

David

RE: Jumping between highlighted regexps

[Drew Adams]

> > I would like to know if there is a way to jump between regexps that
> > are highlighted using 'M-x highlight-regexp'
>
> How about using `occur'?  `next-error' and `previous-error' work as
> expected.

You can also use `C-M-s' (followed by repeated `C-s'), with lazy search
highlighting. If you want to keep the highlighting after searching, set
`isearch-lazy-highlight-cleanup' to nil.

RE: Jumping between highlighted regexps

[Drew Adams]

> I would like to know if there is a way to jump between regexps that
> are highlighted using 'M-x highlight-regexp'

You can do this with library highlight.el, if you use Emacs 21 or later. I
bind `S-C-n' and `S-C-p' to ‘highlight-next-highlight’ and
‘highlight-previous-highlight’.

The navigation is per-face; that is, it is among the highlights of a given
face. Use ‘M-x highlight-face’ to switch to a different face. You can
highlight in any number of faces.

You can highlight the same portions of text using multiple faces. Navigation
always reflects the current highlighting face. If that face is present, then
navigation will find it, even if the same text has additional highlighting
faces.

If the region is active and non-empty, then navigation is restricted to the
region.

To use this feature, you must use library highlight.el, not library
hi-lock.el, to create the highlights, and you must create them using
overlays, not text properties - that is, `highlight-use-overlays-flag' must
be non-nil (which it is, by default).

Code: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/highlight.el.

Description: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HighLight. See also
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HighlightTemporarily.