Re: Search and highlighting

[Peter Lee]

Rene Reitinger <rener@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

> A searchfunction like in vi or less. Emacs highlights the appearances
> of the searchstring while in search mode. i would like to keep the
> highlighting even when search mode is finished.
>
> is there already such a feature or has someone created a function to
> do that??

Have you tried 'M-x highlight-regexp' or 'M-x highlight-phrase' ?