From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: New function: rcd-highlight-list Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 20:08:29 +0300 Message-ID: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23736"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 19:09:58 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lj3EC-0005t7-Uj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 19:09:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34976 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj3EB-0002zz-Vs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 13:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj3Dc-0002yD-AF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 13:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:33271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj3Da-0006gV-1n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 13:09:19 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.80.13.133]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ADF02.0000000060A3F49B.00002BB9; Tue, 18 May 2021 10:08:42 -0700 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=support1@rcdrun.com; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129896 Archived-At: (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: (rcd-highlight-list '("just" "to" "function" "list" "strings" "highlight")) or use some highlighted tags in every text mode: (rcd-highlight-list '("TODO" "DONE" "DELEGATED")) or add it to some mode: (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook (lambda () (rcd-highlight-list '("TODO" "DONE" "DELEGATED" "To:" "Subject:"))))