From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New function: rcd-highlight-list Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 16:13:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20210518172721.GL11623@tuxteam.de> <20210518184748.GA9116@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="433"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:A5nyVUXBnDUxuTcDC6p+cUVvS6c= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 22:38:05 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 1lj6Td-000ASe-Jz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 22:38:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45482 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj6Tc-0002Fs-C3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 16:38:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj66S-0005Wn-4I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 16:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:33444) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj66Q-0007Va-GN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 16:14:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lj66O-000A0L-No for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 22:14:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io 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_NONE=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:129903 Archived-At: tomas@tuxteam.de [2021-05-18 20:47:48] wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 08:43:21PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote: >> * 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 > > Perhaps the function `regexp-quote' is built for you :) I think you mistyped `regexp-opt`. Stefan