Re: Automatically highlighting the symbol under point

[Tassilo Horn]

John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> writes:

>> I am using prelude and if my point is over a symbol then I can call
>> 'highlight-symbol-under-point' which works great. However, I can't
>> figure out how to turn it off.
>
> You can use `unhighlight-regexp' (on `C-x w r' and/or `M-s h u') for
> this. It prompts for a regexp, but for your scenario you can just hit
> `RET' to accept the default.
>
>> Ideally, I would like it to automatically highlight the symbol under
>> point all the time, or at least when in a programming mode - is that
>> possible and any prior art you can point me at?
>
> Check out `idle-highlight-mode' (available in MELPA) for that:
> https://github.com/nonsequitur/idle-highlight-mode

Or alternatively, highlight-symbol-mode from

  https://github.com/nschum/highlight-symbol.el

Bye,
Tassilo