From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:59:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: More explanation of "highlighting".
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More explanation of "highlighting".
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diff --git a/man/glossary.texi b/man/glossary.texi
index 67adfd017d1..28bd7e88305 100644
--- a/man/glossary.texi
+++ b/man/glossary.texi
@@ -540,6 +540,12 @@ Highlighting text means displaying it with a different foreground and/or
 background color to make it stand out from the rest of the text in the
 buffer.
 
+Emacs uses highlighting in several ways.  When you mark a region with
+the mouse, the region is always highlighted.  Optionally Emacs can
+also highlight the region whenever it is active (@pref{Transient
+Mark}).  Incremental search also highlights matches (@pref{Incremental
+Search}).  See also `font lock'.
+
 @item Hardcopy
 Hardcopy means printed output.  Emacs has commands for making printed
 listings of text in Emacs buffers.  @xref{Hardcopy}.