GNU bug report logs - #43641
Suggest region contents in highlight-regexp when region active

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ej32u <at> protonmail.com

Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 01:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 43641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: ej32u <at> protonmail.com
Cc: 43641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43641: Suggest region contents in highlight-regexp when
 region active
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:18:35 +0200

ej32u <at> protonmail.com writes:

> It is convenient to highlight a region in transient-mark-mode, and then have 
> highlight-regexp suggest the contents of that region.

I use neither transient-mark-mode nor hi-lock, so I'm not really that
qualified here, but the patch makes sense to me, so I've committed it to
Emacs 28.

A tiny nit for future patches -- including ChangeLog-style text (created
via `C-x 4 a') would be nice.

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