bug#15934: [Feature request] Highlight full lines

[Michael Heerdegen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> I'll install the suggested patch in a couple of days if no one objects.

Done, with a minor correction:

From d534687c43a1517e291b8de31e3ce23c2e6e4603 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:51:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Hi-lock lines up to right margin (Bug#15934)

* lisp/hi-lock.el (hi-lock-line-face-buffer): Change used regexp so
that a line terminating newline character is included in the match.
---
 lisp/hi-lock.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/hi-lock.el b/lisp/hi-lock.el
index 65465d3b4c..b6b0e2a736 100644
--- a/lisp/hi-lock.el
+++ b/lisp/hi-lock.el
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ hi-lock-line-face-buffer
   (hi-lock-set-pattern
    ;; The \\(?:...\\) grouping construct ensures that a leading ^, +, * or ?
    ;; or a trailing $ in REGEXP will be interpreted correctly.
-   (concat "^.*\\(?:" regexp "\\).*$") face))
+   (concat "^.*\\(?:" regexp "\\).*\\(?:$\\)\n?") face))


 ;;;###autoload
--
2.23.0.rc1

The installed patch uses a shy group to wrap the $ operator.  Doesn't
change the behavior but should be more correct.

Thanks,

Michael.