From: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Cc: Colin Yates <colin.yates@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Automatically highlighting the symbol under point
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:26:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOj2CQTRfGnc5RnRQMG8URjv0bx=4FL6WH+xkBz+bg4U=d6-ng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wpwocsha.fsf@gmail.com>
> I am using prelude and if my point is over a symbol then I can call
> 'highlight-symbol-under-point' which works great. However, I can't
> figure out how to turn it off.
You can use `unhighlight-regexp' (on `C-x w r' and/or `M-s h u') for
this. It prompts for a regexp, but for your scenario you can just hit
`RET' to accept the default.
> 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
--
john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-21 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-21 20:10 Automatically highlighting the symbol under point Colin Yates
2015-08-21 20:26 ` John Mastro [this message]
2015-08-21 20:31 ` John Mastro
2015-08-21 20:34 ` Colin Yates
2015-08-22 5:36 ` Tassilo Horn
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