From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Santiago Mejia Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font-lock on variables Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:41:02 -0500 Message-ID: <87r5w45qtd.fsf@uchicago.edu> References: <87ljmdsu67.fsf@uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248561706 18002 80.91.229.12 (25 Jul 2009 22:41:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:41:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 26 00:41:39 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 1MUpvu-0008Bj-PM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:41:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33381 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MUpvu-00029n-9m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUpvZ-00029h-8n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:41:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUpvU-00029L-SS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42593 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MUpvU-00029I-OI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:41:12 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43476 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 1MUpvT-0003x4-Il for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:41:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MUpvR-0007Zq-Kb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:41:09 +0000 Original-Received: from adsl-75-34-181-251.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net ([75.34.181.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:41:09 +0000 Original-Received: from mejia by adsl-75-34-181-251.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:41:09 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-75-34-181-251.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7pJOB+X1yhIkwBdi1+SVBL+TG3E= 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:66388 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > Hi-lock is only one library that offers such highlighting. See the generic wiki > page for this topic: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HighlightTemporarily. That > page compares the various highlighting libraries, including hi-lock, listing > what each is good for. As I just said in an earlier post, hi-lock is not yet working for me. I have managed, however, to highlight text with other packages in the page you mentioned (such as highlight.el). So, if anything else works, at least I have now a solution. However, it seems that using this procedure is not ideal. highlight.el does not work in connection with font-lock-mode. It seems to me that it would be desirable that, when one turned font-lock-mode off, all the fontified text was unfontified. However, using packets such as highlight.el entails using two modes to fontify, and therefore the fontification would not be unified. Santiago.