From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: syntax highlighting on the fly Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:06:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <87zjl2kzdv.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <871tyeghg1.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394212022 2773 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2014 17:07:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:07:02 +0000 (UTC) To: lee , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 18:07:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WLyEn-0003QQ-FX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:07:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37546 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLyEn-0004p7-1H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:07:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43018) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLyEV-0004nx-VU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:06:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLyEO-0001Uf-K8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:06:51 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:17664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLyEO-0001UU-CT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:06:44 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s27H6g2a021340 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:06:43 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s27H6fMj023451 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:06:42 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0017.oracle.com (abhmp0017.oracle.com [141.146.116.23]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s27H6fgs025178; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:06:41 GMT In-Reply-To: <871tyeghg1.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96297 Archived-At: See http://stackoverflow.com/a/21997150/729907, which is about highlighting the symbol at point or under the mouse pointer. There are multiple approaches with different advantages. (Remember too that `C-s C-w C-w...' will also highlight occurrences of text at point, albeit transiently.)