Highlight Symbols, Selections, Enclosing Parens and More
This repo was deprecated and moved to new place, https://github.com/hl-anything/hl-anything-emacs
.
Highlight things at point, selections, enclosing parentheses with different colors. Fix grumbling issue of highlights being overridden by hl-line-mode
and global-hl-line-mode
.
Demo
hl-highlight-mode
Basic Usage - First Step, Enable There're GLOBAL and LOCAL kinds of highlights. The global highlights appear in every buffer; The local highlights only exist in the current buffer.
Global Highlights:
- Command
hl-highlight-thingatpt-global
to toggle global highlight at point or selection. - Command
hl-unhighlight-all-global
to remove all global highlights.
Local Highlights:
- Command
hl-highlight-thingatpt-local
to toggle local highlight at point or selection. - Command
hl-unhighlight-all-local
to remove all local highlights.
You can change foreground and background colors of highlights:
- Foreground colors are stored in
hl-highlight-foreground-colors
variable. - Background colors are stored in
hl-highlight-background-colors
variable.
Turn Highlight On/Off
M-x
hl-global-highlight-on/off
to turn highlight on or off!
Example:
Search Highlights
Put your cursor on the highlight and use following commands to search highlights.
M-x
hl-find-next-thing
and hl-find-prev-thing
to go through highlights.
Save & Restore Highlights
Once hl-highlight-mode
is on, it will save highlights automatically before Emacs exits.
It will also try to restore highlights when Emacs opens.
M-x
hl-save-highlights
to save highlights;M-x
hl-restore-highlights
to restore highlights.- Saved file-path is stored in
hl-highlight-save-file
variable.
hl-paren-mode
Parenthese Highlight,
- Colors of outward parentheses are stored in
hl-outward-paren-fg-colors
andhl-outward-paren-bg-colors
variables. - Colors of inward parentheses are stored in
hl-inward-paren-fg-color
variables.
hl-highlight-special-faces
Advanced - This is a special faces storage. The faces storing here are always on the top of the current line highlight (hl-line-mode
and global-hl-line-mode
).
Example:
;; 'YOUR-FACE will never be hidden by current line highlight.
(add-to-list 'hl-highlight-special-faces 'YOUR-FACE t)
TODO
- Highlight Enclosing syntax in Emacs REGEX.
- Integrate with
helm
to give ability to navigate highlights. - Define all the parenthesis pairs using a variable that can be highlighted. issue#8
Contribution
Forks and pull requests are welcome!