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 10:49:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83fsdny76f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lenfy8sh.fsf@gnu.org> <5Dc0oNSOvO6IdT1Q19A303nARjz0NjnAt01-brNNh_bv5i_ZDdtr0a7UpDtDcRhboVab_OPmhx3ojUfQOQi66BGMFdmNaT6fwBDykWzQ_EA=@protonmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11179"; 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 09:50:26 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 1p3vYw-0002kk-3Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 09:50:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3vYM-00088G-UL; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:49:50 -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 1p3vYL-000885-9z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:49:49 -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 1p3vYL-0004kj-1W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:49:49 -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=+iKpGhCBbiGBv1cXyiwjyJPK1LsOa+ZOar8Si8ONhfQ=; b=mj3rr3j3hpYX ADillMZ8kdb2AH28AfADRfEAL281ij2Vzu20Xy2qQ6b+EYgkrB3BdhPzsGC3XMI0h2BUy3eHviBAe D2mqKwbu7HZ/iFY5ZGaePTnK1wyWIWxBFHxKgVK+K05QPaZ7H24XR1GH0UwlcMCokXuyeSSuYCh4E k0zZZ/JmmNxpumj6S3NMEt3+9i5J1Vf1NB/JtBs7gkUvS5y6nR8g0hvfm3zV0A4EDGhtZJ3UUipWL EU+IJAsqSGblzR0ojnUmCelmmTzt9NjpA3vhoTjJCxVSdcnOq1OUmT6vA0PA0Jzhiw5DPE2ugy324 8F8J+JfrKeUkZfnQjEiQRA==; 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 1p3vYK-00073b-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:49:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5Dc0oNSOvO6IdT1Q19A303nARjz0NjnAt01-brNNh_bv5i_ZDdtr0a7UpDtDcRhboVab_OPmhx3ojUfQOQi66BGMFdmNaT6fwBDykWzQ_EA=@protonmail.com> (message from Heime on Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:30:01 +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:141552 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:30:01 +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.