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From: ranga@topaz.rutgers.edu (Rangarajan)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Inverse videoing a region of text in GNU emacs
Message-ID: <12497@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 14:49:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.12497
Posted: Sun Jun  7 14:49:51 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 01:18:34 EDT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: Inverse-video


Is there a command to highlight (reverse video) a region of text? I
know that the variable "inverse-video" controls this feature, but it
does not seem to work properly in a lisp function. I tried the
following (in vain):
	(defun hilite (from to)
	  ;; Highlight the segment from FROM to TO
		(kill-region from to)
		(setq inverse-video t)
		(goto-char from)
		(yank)
		(setq inverse-video nil)
	)

	Any insights? Thanks.
		--ranga

address: rangarajan@ru-aim, ranga@topaz.rutgers.edu