From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Make highlight-symbol.el perfect?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:45:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv61ztnkd3.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CACeWA3jOqYgpQ_5noXV2Z_T7m=vYTwwif0GPgw8JjRj0c68=0A@mail.gmail.com
> face on matched regions of the buffer. It should just add overlays. The
> code should get simpler, including removing the overlays when you
> un-highlight matches, because that's just `(mapcat #'delete-overlay
> existing-overlays)`.
Better would be to add "text-property planes". So font-lock could
add&remove its `face' property and highlight-symbol could add&remove its
own `face' property without conflict.
I think this would make a nice GSoC project.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-11 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-11 14:25 Make highlight-symbol.el perfect? Steven Degutis
2013-04-11 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-04-11 18:01 ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-12 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier
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