Re: Text highlighter functiontionality

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Hi, i didn't follow this post, so i don't know really what you want.
But if you want to save a region anywhere in emacs and retrieve it at
every emacs session, you can use bookmark+.el.


"stephan.zimmer" <stephan.zimmer@googlemail.com> writes:

> Many thanks for all of your answers.
>
>> But if you want to mark a region and highlight it you could use a simple
>> function to create an overlay. Here's an example function which
>> highlights current active region. You can remove the highlighting by
>> just editing text inside it.
>
> This sounds pretty much like what I need. Currently I'm slightly
> extending Teemu's function in such a way that I can also deselect
> parts of a selection. My ultimate plan is to add a toggle function,
> which would allow to select and deselect arbitrary portions of text
> with one function. If that turns out to be interesting for more of you
> I will post the code.
>

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