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Re: Make highlight-symbol.el perfect?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Make highlight-symbol.el perfect? |
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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:45:29 -0400 |
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> 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