bug#6227: Color isearch regexp submatches differently

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
>>> I think `reb-update-overlays' should be completely rewritten
>>> for isearch.el.
>>
>> You surely know this things much better than me, but is there any
>> reason to double the code?
>
> `reb-update-overlays' highlights all matches in the buffer.
> This is like what lazy-highlighting does.  But we agreed
> that it should affect only the current isearch match,
> not all lazy-highlighted matches.
>
>> If it is rewritten why not let re-builder share the same code?
>
> Yes, and query-replace highlighting could share it too.


I see. A misunderstanding, we mean the same. I wrote the
reb-update-overlays should be split and I meant then into one function
that hilights only one match (which is given as a parameter) and one
that loops for reb-update-overlays.


>>> The only thing we need from re-builder.el are faces
>>> reb-match-1, reb-match-2, reb-match-3.  We should try
>>> using the existing faces for the same functionality.
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