From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Paul Whittaker <emacs@pdw.org.uk>
Cc: 25841@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25841: 25.2; Highlighting not being updated in some modes.
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:00:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ino1osuj.fsf@rosalinde> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <231f3b41-7ba1-58d9-a1d4-2e0af37d0ac7@drisq.com>
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:21:38 +0000 Paul Whittaker <emacs@pdw.org.uk> wrote:
> On 22/02/17 22:02, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> This is the documented way highlight-regexp behaves:
>>
>> Use Font lock mode, if enabled, to highlight REGEXP. Otherwise,
>> use overlays for highlighting. If overlays are used, the
>> highlighting will not update as you type.
>
> Thanks, I'd missed that.
>
> I'm trying to get dynamic (non-overlay) highlighting working in a plain
> text mode. That documentation makes me think that I just need to enable
> font-lock mode, but doing that doesn't appear to make any difference.
>
> emacs -Q
> M-x fundamental-mode RET
> M-1 M-x font-lock-mode RET
> M-x highlight-regexp RET foo RET hi-yellow RET
>
> f o o SPC b a r ;; Not highlighted, as before.
>
> Would you expect that to work, or is there something else that I'm
> missing here? Apologies if this is a stupid question: I suspect I'm not
> seeing all of the picture.
I can't explain how font-lock works, but by experimenting it appears you
have to set font-lock-defaults to a non-nil value in the buffer (it
seems before enabling font-lock-mode, though there's an interaction I
don't understand). Here's a recipe:
0. emacs -Q
1. C-x b a RET ; Switch to new buffer "a".
2. Enter some text, e.g. "foo".
3. M-x font-lock-mode RET ; Disable font-lock-mode in the buffer --
; by default it's enabled globally .
4. M-: (setq-local font-lock-defaults (list 'bla)) RET
5. M-x font-lock-mode RET ; Re-enable font-lock-mode. On one test I
; thought this was sufficient, but on
; subsequent repetition I've consistently
; gotten a void variable error and had to
; disable and then re-enable font-lock-mode
; again.
6. M-x highlight-regexp (or M-s h r) RET foo RET hi-yellow RET
=> Now "foo" is highlighted, and deleting a letter from it unhighlights
it.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-23 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-22 21:39 bug#25841: 25.2; Highlighting not being updated in some modes Paul Whittaker
2017-02-22 22:02 ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-23 12:21 ` Paul Whittaker
2017-02-23 15:00 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2019-08-21 2:09 ` Stefan Kangas
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