From d804f4d6ca9a605623af39d486306d2929ff3ebe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:59:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] More explanation of "highlighting". --- man/glossary.texi | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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}. -- 2.39.5