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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New function: rcd-highlight-list
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 19:27:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210518172721.GL11623@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <courier.0000000060A3F49A.00002BB9@stw1.rcdrun.com>

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On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 08:08:29PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> 
> (defun rcd-highlight-list (list)
>   "Uses LIST to highlight strings in buffer."
>   (hi-lock-mode)
>   (let* ((list (delete "" list))
> 	(highlights hi-lock-face-defaults))
>     (while list
>       (highlight-regexp (pop list) (pop highlights)))))
> 
> Just feed to this function a list of strings to highlight:

What happens if one of the strings is ".*"?

Cheers
 - t

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-18 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-18 17:08 New function: rcd-highlight-list Jean Louis
2021-05-18 17:27 ` tomas [this message]
2021-05-18 17:43   ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 18:47     ` tomas
2021-05-18 20:13       ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-19  7:52         ` tomas
2021-05-19 10:15           ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-19 10:31             ` tomas
2021-05-19 10:27           ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 20:14       ` Jean Louis

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