how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor?

how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor?

[Leo.Hou]

Hi all,

I am happy with the M-x highligh-phrase command except I need to
manually input the complete word every time.

I wonder if it is possible to create a macro or function in the .emacs
file and assign a shortcut to it to automatically highlight the
current word under cursor to the default "hi-yellow" color.

Similarly I hope to have a key to unhighlight it.

Any tip will be great.

Thanks

Leo

Re: how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor?

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

"Leo.Hou" <leo.hou@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wonder if it is possible to create a macro or function in the .emacs
> file and assign a shortcut to it to automatically highlight the
> current word under cursor to the default "hi-yellow" color.

I did once.  It's available here:
http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-symbol/


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Re: how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> "Leo.Hou" <leo.hou@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if it is possible to create a macro or function in the .emacs
>> file and assign a shortcut to it to automatically highlight the
>> current word under cursor to the default "hi-yellow" color.
> 
> I did once.  It's available here:
> http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-symbol/
> 
> 
> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher


Maybe this page also can help:

   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SearchAtPoint

Re: how to temporarily highlight/unhighlight a word under cursor?

[Ken Goldman]

I use ishl mode, which highlights additional search matches.
Then C-s C-w does what you want.

Leo.Hou wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am happy with the M-x highligh-phrase command except I need to
> manually input the complete word every time.
> 
> I wonder if it is possible to create a macro or function in the .emacs
> file and assign a shortcut to it to automatically highlight the
> current word under cursor to the default "hi-yellow" color.
> 
> Similarly I hope to have a key to unhighlight it.
> 
> Any tip will be great.