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26.0.50; hover highlighting in an *occur* buffer

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 27846 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27846: 26.0.50; hover highlighting in an *occur* buffer
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:14:14 +0200

Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com> writes:

> While moving the mouse pointer over the text in an *occur* buffer,
> I've just noticed that, if I move the mouse pointer over a line of
> matched text, that line is highlighted, but _not_ including the line
> number which precedes the matched text.
>
> Conversely, if I move the mouse pointer over a line number, only it
> (the line number) is highlighted (not including the text which follows
> it).
>
> IMO, that separation is just bad.  IOW, I think it would be better to
> always highlight together the line number and its corresponding
> line(s) of matched text.
>
> This would make easier to visually relate both items (line number and
> line text), with is not trivial in cases where the matched text has a
> fair amount of leading whitespace.

Makes sense.  I've now tweaked the Occur buffer in Emacs 27 to do this.

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