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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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  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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