Re: Highlight all lines that begin with a "*"

>>>>> "David" == David E <David> writes:

    David> I just wanted to know how I can highlight all lines that
    David> begin with a "*".

Depends on what you mean by all and how permanent it needs to be.  A
very transient approach is

C-u C-s ^\*.*$

In lisp you could do

(save-excursion
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "^\\*.*$" nil t)
    (set-extent-face (make-extent (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))
                     'highlight)))

which would be very permanent (there's no simple way to restore the
previous state).  Or you could use font-lock to do it, but that might
interfere with your major mode.


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