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Re: Highlight text
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Highlight text |
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Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:48:51 +0200 |
> From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 19:08:54 +0530
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> Can somebody point me to a piece of code in the display engine which is
> responsible for highlighting text
> upon selection? Or the general logic on what causes it to display in a
> different face than normal text?
It's not in the display engine (it was once). It's in simple.el, see
redisplay--update-region-highlight there. Basically, we nowadays
implement region highlight as an overlay.