Re: New function: rcd-highlight-list

[Jean Louis]

* tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> [2021-05-18 20:28]:
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 08:08:29PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> > 
> > (defun rcd-highlight-list (list)
> >   "Uses LIST to highlight strings in buffer."
> >   (hi-lock-mode)
> >   (let* ((list (delete "" list))
> >     (highlights hi-lock-face-defaults))
> >     (while list
> >       (highlight-regexp (pop list) (pop highlights)))))
> > 
> > Just feed to this function a list of strings to highlight:
> 
> What happens if one of the strings is ".*"?

Yes, it is not for all circumstances. It will also not support too
many keywords as it uses hi-lock-face-defaults list

-- 
Jean

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