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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
--
Lisp is kinda like tpircstsoP
- patch for glossary.texi: explain highlighting,
Kai Großjohann <=