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Re: Why M-x highlight-regexp does not work after sort in tabulated-list-


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: Why M-x highlight-regexp does not work after sort in tabulated-list-mode?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 07:03:02 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11)

* Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> [2022-08-31 03:41]:
> It was your Bug#53771.  We didn't come to a nice solution in that
> report, so your memory is fine in that regard.

Thank you for reminder. I found it now here:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=53771#27

> The problem was that you are working with a non-font-lock-mode buffer,
> so highlighting is not automatically updated.  OTOH, repeating
> highlight-regexp with the same pattern does nothing.  So I think you
> must first remove the pattern (unhighlight) and then add it again.  You
> can try to do this automatically.

I do think that tabulated list mode should then check for highlighting
patterns and then apply it.

-- 
Jean

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