From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New function: rcd-highlight-list
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 20:43:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKP8ueAHuLdwjmL8@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210518172721.GL11623@tuxteam.de>
* tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> [2021-05-18 20:28]:
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 08:08:29PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> >
> > (defun rcd-highlight-list (list)
> > "Uses LIST to highlight strings in buffer."
> > (hi-lock-mode)
> > (let* ((list (delete "" list))
> > (highlights hi-lock-face-defaults))
> > (while list
> > (highlight-regexp (pop list) (pop highlights)))))
> >
> > Just feed to this function a list of strings to highlight:
>
> What happens if one of the strings is ".*"?
Yes, it is not for all circumstances. It will also not support too
many keywords as it uses hi-lock-face-defaults list
--
Jean
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-18 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-18 17:08 New function: rcd-highlight-list Jean Louis
2021-05-18 17:27 ` tomas
2021-05-18 17:43 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-05-18 18:47 ` tomas
2021-05-18 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-19 7:52 ` tomas
2021-05-19 10:15 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-19 10:31 ` tomas
2021-05-19 10:27 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-18 20:14 ` Jean Louis
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