Re: Highlighting arbitrary bits of text

Thanks all. I'm checking all that out.
Greg E

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

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