Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com> writes:If you are using Emacs from Bzr, then `highlight-symbol' is no longer
> I use highlight symbols to highlight same symbols, and jump between
> them. It chooses rainbow colors automatically and makes it much easier
> to follow some key variables through a block of code.
>
> My fork https://github.com/lewang/highlight-symbol.el allows you to
> use arbitrary region as a "symbol".
needed.
C-h v hi-lock-auto-select-face
C-h v hi-lock-read-regexp-defaults-function
You may want to file a bug report if some feature is missing.