From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: 11095@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11095: 24.0.94; hi-lock-face-buffer/unhighlight-regexp': Augment?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:41:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zk3s1vjz.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5jcvjsx.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:54:30 +0530")
> The patch allows highlighting of tag at point. (Note that for all
> practical purposes, tag at point is the symbol at point.) See
> Part_I/Item-2 below for a usecase.
> [...]
> + (cond ((not tag) "")
> + ((eq tagf 'find-tag-default)
> + (format "\\_<%s\\_>" (regexp-quote tag)))
> [...]
>> As a programmer, I use highlighting to trace variable dependencies
>> within a function. For example, in the example below, after
>> highlighting the variables in __different__ faces, I will come to the
>> conclusion that "a" depends on "d" and "tmp".
>>
>> c = d;
>> b = c + tmp;
>> a = b;
>>
>> And I use this very often to track variables and how they get their
>> values from.
>>
>> If I were to use the default Emacs provided behaviour then I would
>> have to press M-n multiple times as I highlight more and more
>> symbols. (Typically I have 3-5 symbols highlighted before I turn off
>> highlighting.)
Would you agree that a better way to implement your proposal is to add a new
command to hi-lock.el with a name like `highlight-symbol'? I mean there are
already such hi-lock commands as:
1. highlight-lines-matching-regexp (that corresponds to occur)
2. highlight-regexp (that corresponds to isearch-forward-regexp)
3. highlight-phrase (that corresponds to isearch-forward-word)
what is currently missing is this command:
4. highlight-symbol (that corresponds to isearch-forward-symbol)
Then both highlight-phrase and highlight-symbol could use internally
isearch functions that turn words and symbols into regexps
and that will do the right thing using search-upper-case and
search-whitespace-regexp.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-11 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-26 6:46 bug#11095: 24.0.94; hi-lock-face-buffer/unhighlight-regexp': Augment? Jambunathan K
2012-10-10 20:21 ` bug#11095: [PATCH] " Jambunathan K
2012-12-04 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-04 21:39 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-04 21:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-04 22:43 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-05 3:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-05 22:15 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-06 1:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-06 5:06 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-06 14:50 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-06 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-06 19:36 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-06 21:26 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-06 21:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-06 22:23 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-07 4:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-07 4:46 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-07 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-08 12:50 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-10 4:26 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-10 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-10 20:37 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-10 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-10 22:08 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-11 20:24 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-11 20:33 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-11 22:41 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2012-10-12 4:30 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-13 16:10 ` Juri Linkov
2012-10-13 17:28 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-12 16:17 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-12 18:18 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-12 19:32 ` bug#11095: [FINAL] " Jambunathan K
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