Mercurial > emacs
changeset 77448:157beb6be4d8
(Highlight Interactively): Correct description of hi-lock-file-patterns-policy.
| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:39:40 +0000 |
| parents | 9ce8bfb2f686 |
| children | 2bf4ca540ee5 |
| files | man/display.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/display.texi Mon Apr 23 14:39:16 2007 +0000 +++ b/man/display.texi Mon Apr 23 14:39:40 2007 +0000 @@ -726,12 +726,16 @@ have Hi Lock highlight the edited patterns. @vindex hi-lock-file-patterns-policy -The variable @code{hi-lock-file-patterns-policy} controls whether -@code{hi-lock-find-patterns} should really do anything. Its value can -be @code{nil} (do nothing), @code{t} (extract the patterns), -@code{ask} (query the user), or a function. If it is a function, +The variable @code{hi-lock-file-patterns-policy} controls whether Hi +Lock mode should automatically extract and highlight patterns found in +a file when it is visited. Its value can be @code{nil} (never +highlight), @code{t} (highlight the patterns), @code{ask} (query the +user), or a function. If it is a function, @code{hi-lock-find-patterns} calls it with the patterns as argument; -if the function returns non-@code{nil}, the patterns are used. +if the function returns non-@code{nil}, the patterns are used. The +default is @code{nil}. Note that patterns are always highlighted if +you call @code{hi-lock-find-patterns} directly, regardless of the +value of this variable. @vindex hi-lock-exclude-modes Also, @code{hi-lock-find-patterns} does nothing if the current major