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feature request - `highlight-rx` interactively

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Van L <van <at> scratch.space>
Cc: 31953 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31953: feature request - `highlight-rx` interactively
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:02:44 +0200

Van L <van <at> scratch.space> writes:

> Towards the transition to rx from regexp
> may I suggest `highlight-rx` for `highlight-regexp`.
>
> A usecase is to mark a region or string of few words
> and to call `highlight-rx` which does a verbatim highlight.

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you're requesting here.

highlight-regexp is an alias for hi-lock-face-buffer which just does
some highlighting, as far as I can see.  

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