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patch for glossary.texi: explain highlighting


From: Kai Großjohann
Subject: patch for glossary.texi: explain highlighting
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:52:40 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

I propose the following patch for glossary.texi, in order to explain
better what highlighting can be used for.  What do you think?

--- glossary.texi.~1.16.~       Mon Oct 29 12:55:05 2001
+++ glossary.texi       Tue Oct 30 15:50:56 2001
@@ -540,6 +540,12 @@
 background color to make it stand out from the rest of the text in the
 buffer.
 
+This is used in several different contexts in Emacs.  It is always used
+when you mark text with the mouse.  It can be used when you mark text
+with the keyboard, @ref{Transient Mark}.  It can be used to highlight
+matches when searching, @ref{Incremental Search}.  A variant of this is
+`syntax highlighting', see `font lock'.
+
 @item Hardcopy
 Hardcopy means printed output.  Emacs has commands for making printed
 listings of text in Emacs buffers.  @xref{Hardcopy}.

kai
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