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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2001-10-31 21:59:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2001-10-31 21:59:42 +0000 |
| commit | d804f4d6ca9a605623af39d486306d2929ff3ebe (patch) | |
| tree | 1842a8fbf4affaa2ea97efc7fcedb4cfdaae1460 | |
| parent | a6b7378823ca9c67b8e68371fef9f04a11cac5a5 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-d804f4d6ca9a605623af39d486306d2929ff3ebe.tar.gz | |
More explanation of "highlighting".
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diff --git a/man/glossary.texi b/man/glossary.texi index 67adfd017d1..28bd7e88305 100644 --- a/man/glossary.texi +++ b/man/glossary.texi @@ -540,6 +540,12 @@ Highlighting text means displaying it with a different foreground and/or background color to make it stand out from the rest of the text in the buffer. +Emacs uses highlighting in several ways. When you mark a region with +the mouse, the region is always highlighted. Optionally Emacs can +also highlight the region whenever it is active (@pref{Transient +Mark}). Incremental search also highlights matches (@pref{Incremental +Search}). See also `font lock'. + @item Hardcopy Hardcopy means printed output. Emacs has commands for making printed listings of text in Emacs buffers. @xref{Hardcopy}. |