Re: arbitrary persistent highlight

[Xah]

O, if you just want to highligh in a session, just use:

M-x highlight-lines-matching-regexp

  Xah
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On Aug 14, 9:50 pm, Xah <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> kin <send.kin.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm looking for a way to highlight arbitrary line(s) in a buffer
> > persistently, for a emacs session.  Is there a way?
>
> put this as first line into your file:
>
> -*- eval: (highlight-regexp "\"\\([^\"]+\\)\"") -*-
>
> you can add a commont char in front.
> You'll need to tweak the regex of course. The above highlights between
> double quotes.
> You can also use highlight-lines-matching-regexp instead.
>
>   Xah
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
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