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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-07-03 15:55:10 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-07-03 15:55:10 +0300
commitcb8fb597e5bf4f14bf091aaa0c984117f4243605 (patch)
treef90a4aede1b1ad34635533ef7fdc899e855dc44a
parentdc5ed2c838abe50df4befe74bf11038d387b6ba8 (diff)
downloademacs-cb8fb597e5bf4f14bf091aaa0c984117f4243605.tar.gz
* lisp/hi-lock.el (hi-lock-line-face-buffer): Doc fix. (Bug36448)
-rw-r--r--lisp/hi-lock.el6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/hi-lock.el b/lisp/hi-lock.el
index b02fbc905b5..ce16c924524 100644
--- a/lisp/hi-lock.el
+++ b/lisp/hi-lock.el
@@ -409,7 +409,11 @@ versions before 22 use the following in your init file:
(defalias 'highlight-lines-matching-regexp 'hi-lock-line-face-buffer)
;;;###autoload
(defun hi-lock-line-face-buffer (regexp &optional face)
- "Set face of all lines containing a match of REGEXP to FACE.
+ "Highlight all lines that match REGEXP using FACE.
+The lines that match REGEXP will be displayed by merging
+the attributes of FACE with any other face attributes
+of text in those lines.
+
Interactively, prompt for REGEXP using `read-regexp', then FACE.
Use the global history list for FACE.