Questions tagged [highlight-chars]
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There's a way to use emacs like MS Word, to make text permanently colored, stylized, etc...?
I'm totally new to the wonderful world of Emacs. I started to use it some weeks ago and i'm find myself to use it more and more... I would like to use it not only as a code editor, but also as a word processor like MS Word, Apple Pages, etc,…
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highlight-chars and magit is conflicting
first time StackExchange user here.
I'm having trouble with highlight-chars (probably font-lock) and magit.
Enabling hc-toggle-highlight-* functions will remove the coloring from magit buffers.
Possibly duplicate:
Font-lock for strings messes up…
Seba
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highlight-chars permanently
I am trying to highlight particular chars for use in C++ in emacs. I have found the package highlight-chars works very easily. I can use hc-highlight-chars command, it then prompts me for a set of chars and then asks for a face.
However, it expires…
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How to use the highlight-chars.el package?
How can I use the highlight-chars.el package mentioned here (and here's its code) to highlight custom characters?
Specifically, I'd like to highlight the unicode directional formatting characters for embedding right-to-left languages in a…
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Better than lib "highlight-symbol"
windows 10, emacs 26.1.
To highlight symbol I use package highlight-symbol
http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-symbol/
Nice.
But I need symbol "=" to be a separator.
As you can see the test=this is highlight. But I don't like this. I need to…
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Jump to and highlight characters matching regex
How can I jump to the next character matching a regex (see example below)? And if possible, enable highlighting of all the matching characters in the buffer when I jump for the first time.
[^\x20-\x7eéèëê]
This article says how to do it for…
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How to show invisible/problematic characters such as TAB and Narrow No-Break Space in an org-mode table?
Is there a way to indicate where you have an "invisible" character that's causing problems in an org-mode table?
The character's likely a TAB, but for the general case I'd like to assume it could also be other characters, e.g. a "narrow no-break…
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Distinguish various hyphens: U+00AD and U+2011
According to the manual, emacs
displays U+00AD (soft hyphen), U+2010 (hyphen), and U+2011 (non-breaking hyphen) with the escape-glyph face.
Which is fine to distinguish them from the ASCII hyphen/dash/minus character, but I'd like to be able to…
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Syntax highlighting (in Emacs) for SQL code in log files
How can we highlight SQL code in some log files, with Emacs?
Sample log file:
[DEBUG][2016-05-26 09:04:51,714][FileHelper] - [realContextPath=[/server.xml]]
[DEBUG][2016-05-26 10:24:22,369][DbConnectionImpl] - [DELETE FROM…
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How to pass multiple arguments to hc-highlight-chars?
How do you pass arguments to a function using lambda? I have looked through: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Argument-List.html#Argument-List
and
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/highlight-chars.el
The only examples…
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Using general comment character used in programming languages
I am using highlight-regexp with a regexp pattern that includes the elisp comment characters ;;. How can I extend the pattern so that it adequately handle the general comment character for each language?
(highlight-regexp
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Dilna
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Highlight single character at column 80
I am trying to highlight just a single character on a line when it is on the 80th column mark.
I am using Doom Emacs, which did it on in on a previous Emacs version, but I updated my operating system, and I can no longer get it to work.
To be…
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