Subject: bug#13461: Subject: 24.2; highlight lines regexp does not highlight all lines

From: Jambunathan K <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:27:32 +0530

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> Dave Franklin wrote:
>
>> I position the cursor on the first line in the file.
>> When I execute the command: M-x highlight-lines-matching-regexp and
>> select a regexp to use, Emacs only highlights a small fraction of lines
>> that that match such regexp.
>
> Maybe you want to increase hi-lock-highlight-range /
> hi-lock-file-patterns-range. There may be performance consequences
> though.

As one scrolls through the buffer, the end point of highlighted range
can also scroll ahead.  Such a behaviour would eliminate surprises.
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