RE: Highlighting arbitrary bits of text

As an alternative to Tony's perfectly sensible response, you might like to look at the stuff about Calltips in the documentation.
(http://www.nedit.org/ftp/contrib/misc/nedit.pdf)
They would seem to allow you to achieve the effect you wish, albeit in a different way.
Which is better will depend on a number of factors, like how much effort you wish to put in, how dynamic the information is, personal preference, etc.

Have fun,
Evan




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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Balinski
Sent: 2011-02-15 07:18
To: General NEdit discussion list
Subject: Re: Highlighting arbitrary bits of text



On 15 Feb 2011, at 03:13, Greg Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I haven't researched this properly, apologies if it's obvious, or
> obviously
> impossible :=)
>
> I'd like to be able to highlight, in some colour or some background,
> some
> small pieces of code in a program being edited with Nedit, to server
> as
> reference and reminder for editing/checking/changing some other
> similar code
> further down in a file. This seems to be in the domain of highlighting
> syntax, but it's not constant highlighting of a set syntax style. I
> just
> want to sweep over some bits of code and highlight them somehow, and
> have
> them stay highlighted until further notice
(Sorry for the empty reply earlier: finger slipped over the iphone.)
This is what rangesets are for. You need to provide a macro that will
create a rangeset and provide ranges (start and end positions) for it.
You can also give it a color and a name. You can also write macros to
jump to a range in the set, add a searched string's occurrences to a
set etc. Look in nedit's help windows for more info; various people
have macro collections for this sort of thing too.
Tony
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