From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Special hilighting for comments Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 13:15:15 +0200 Message-ID: <837cyzy0fw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lenfy8sh.fsf@gnu.org> <5Dc0oNSOvO6IdT1Q19A303nARjz0NjnAt01-brNNh_bv5i_ZDdtr0a7UpDtDcRhboVab_OPmhx3ojUfQOQi66BGMFdmNaT6fwBDykWzQ_EA=@protonmail.com> <83fsdny76f.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15646"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 10 12:15:53 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p3xpg-0003tJ-HJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 12:15:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3xpB-0002RW-P5; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:15:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3xp9-0002Ow-BG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:15:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3xp9-0000Tn-2S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:15:19 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Kvbq1IOlxL9JPVtsg4K2d7XBciQD4ykB3eODyOWsLnE=; b=aj53uaJ+rL9r Z+HPHuTpz3Z/85lY1/UqmDye6yVTkrH2klWa4WTyAMcJfAnD9Rndh+LC5WPVHQ7ZodOXqCyenVWRT Y6oFFLSSP10Uy81FvCoggZ1NU9WFvMmSX4fv5b7dkL0zn8oZ8I9I6kTJfGjZ+LZv9gmH4cuFBjWjZ 2I6AeY9DBn3X00hAOfyygYTxfC7THK9YXhwg8ErQiKRrOvEDqFjwN0yW0xWbEEZh9EoGSV44dLER1 bl4uSbGP+mB+tkq/RSWqIAHnw97mC75RxyrmoFW92lqwfQoi54Zpzz1vIXMGNGKUmMmkCn8d5nytR onX8Udy3G1bmFXw1f52FAQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3xp8-0004Le-JE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:15:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Heime on Sat, 10 Dec 2022 10:53:42 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141576 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 10:53:42 +0000 > From: Heime > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > Emacs is missing out on a beneficial capability beyond just highlight symbols in other programming language modes. > > > > > > I don't think that's true: have you tried using the capabilities in > > hi-lock.el, as I suggested up-thread? That package can let you > > highlight anything. > > What do I need to do? Type "M-s h l" (or "M-x highlight-lines-matching-regexp RET").