Re: Automatically highlighting the symbol under point

[John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>]

>> Ideally, I would like it to automatically highlight the symbol under
>> point all the time, or at least when in a programming mode - is that
>> possible and any prior art you can point me at?
>
> Check out `idle-highlight-mode' (available in MELPA) for that:
> https://github.com/nonsequitur/idle-highlight-mode

After you install it, you can active it in programming modes with
something like this:

    (defun my-programming-config ()
      (idle-highlight-mode 1))

    (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'my-programming-config)

-- 
john