lockyear@ssc-vax.UUCP (Kathy Lockyear) (03/06/90)
We are currently trying to highlight individual
keywords in the emacs buffer by reverse
video or bolding and are having problems.
Has anyone ever tried to do this? Here are a
couple questions:
a. What are the proper string sequences for
bolding and/or reverse video, or for turning
these on and off dynamically? In other words,
are these string sequences represented by any
Emacs internal variables?
b. Is there a way to embed these string sequences/
control characters so that redraw-display
will work properly, i.e. to embed them before
and after the characters to be affected?
When we have put certain control characters in
the buffer, they seem to be translated to
something different than we intended (\033
appears on the screen as ^[, for instance).
We have also tried finding a keyword and
temporarily changing the mode of the buffer, in the
hope that it will output the text differently. Such
as:
1. find a keyword in the buffer
2. send-string-to-terminal -- puts screen
in supposedly correct mode
3. output the keyword
4. send-string-to-terminal -- puts screen
back to previous mode
When we do this, however, we only get plain
text -- no special highlights.
Any ideas out there? Thanks in advance,
Maggie Davis
Kathy Lockyear
Boeing Aerospace and Electronics
Seattle, WA 98124
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