Re: highlighting regions in script

[Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:04:47 +0100 (CET), Juergen Lemke <lemke_juergen@xxxxxxxx> said:


>  define highlightreg()
>  {
>    HIGHLIGHT=1; % just in case: also set in jed.rc
>    bol(); push_mark(); eol(); 
>    message(%question);
>  }

>  But this does not work: the line is not highlighted when the question is
>  asked, although the mark has really been set (for example pressing
>  Ctrl-W deletes the region which we just deifned). The weird thing is
>  that I have HIGHLIGHT=1; why can't I reproduce in this simple function
>  the behavior I get when I do this manually (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-[space] and
>  Ctrl-E)?
Because Ctrl-[space] is not bound to push_mark() - if you type C-h k
Ctrl-[space] you'll probably see that it's bound to smart_set_mark_cmd().
In this case, you should use push_visible_mark().

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