From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Text highlighter functiontionality Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:03:32 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <877hxyqahn.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <87skgnlh62.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248456792 1564 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2009 17:33:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:33:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 24 19:33:05 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MUOdk-0001xX-50 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:33:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49048 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MUOdi-0007IB-Tg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUOHb-0002C2-RT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUOHW-0002BJ-7U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42846 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MUOHW-0002BG-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44790 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MUOHV-0000kM-MG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MUOHP-0000e4-MA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:09:59 +0000 Original-Received: from 194.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:09:59 +0000 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 194.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:09:59 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEUHAwNfJRBVTESlTym0 RB/OwKFivhZqAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABeElE QVQ4y3VTW47CMAyMwwUyTfYfUvG/wfC/ET4B0t7/KmsHurRgXFVVPRm/xglhsRj2+npW98G3+Amp tS5BXxl3SqzcXGRuEyf7n5lPA9jXetNPRhE7EJkzfz8YWnIgBSwW95TK4H79/t4GINKNADWj4PgA DiJX/ZxFDzDXeb4oYMw7kNUvyMzcaj3ioICG4hCKEShkPpwQ49Q05nnkGAQLDFDdExjm0qpowBYA Wi61bDlFU1GW0WbY2dSJYX5ZD2S0AiZL+rPyE19TpMzP2IvNWly+NkuWNgD4pO2oL73IQXoSyVX2 NHna7tgadWRXoCdvf2guqEcvGHqZwE520iRD0/QCYiiTE+U21w1Qxvg6iSp9fbIiDCnSAelDkCVF Vn+HekqXzRybwJ40xF4DMRG6SWGK9G1lYzHSxLYEm05GWbpJCB6A9tb9A3BGn2XdwJbS/WuInj74 4QNF8sVFdP3vl+5tgYp4Ev7fyrfFMkXgElDgV4uV/w8TWEeLCIGJ/AAAACV0RVh0Y3JlYXRlLWRh dGUAMjAwOC0wNS0zMVQyMjoxNDoyMiswMjowMM7uH/IAAAARdEVYdGpwZWc6Y29sb3JzcGFjZQAy LHVVnwAAACB0RVh0anBlZzpzYW1wbGluZy1mYWN0b3IAMngyLDF4MSwxeDFJ+qa0AAAAJXRFWHRt b2RpZnktZGF0ZQAyMDA3LTEwLTI4VDE3OjA4OjQ4KzAxOjAwhqNSRgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cp9+pWM6pxCtwagkFs6VPpfLYXU= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66374 Archived-At: 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" 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. > -- A + Thierry Volpiatto Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France