From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How should a clone of the `grep` program highlight matches for Emacs?
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:22:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87381d2n1v.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cuo08qFilscU1@mid.individual.net> (Raffaele Ricciardi's message of "Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:32:57 +0200")
Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com> writes:
> I am writing an Emacs script as a replacement for the `grep` program
> while executing the `rgrep` command. Now, I can't make my Emacs
> script highlight the matches in a way that Emacs understands.
Do you want to use this script from M-x grep? I assume "yes".
AFAICT grep.el highlights matches via a grep-mode defined as kind of a
compilation-mode. The way of highlighting is defined in
`grep-regexp-alist'. Other things are highlighted via font-lock
keywords. Of course be sure to bind grep-highlight-matches non-nil.
But in general, grep-mode should be able to highlight as you want it.
My first guess is that might be help to set grep-highlight-matches to
always -- note that this option has a :set custom specification!
If that doesn't help, please show us some code!
Regards,
Michael.
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2015-06-21 14:32 How should a clone of the `grep` program highlight matches for Emacs? Raffaele Ricciardi
2015-06-27 15:22 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2015-06-29 15:58 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
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