Activating overlays in a transient manner

[vemv]

Hi!

Great package, thanks for the work.

I wonder if there's a pre-made recipe for displaying the overlay in a transient manner?

e.g.:

• hit a keybinding (or perhaps simply click or cmd+click) a symbol to activate its highlighting
• as soon as I type any key, all overlays disappear.

This works similarly to the "highlight local vars" feature in misc IDEs (IIRC).

This might be hackable with the current API but of course, if someone has sweated the details before, so much the better.

Thanks - V

[hmelman]

See Issue #59

[vemv]

Hi @hmelman , thanks for chiming in! Interesting.

However I meant 'transient' as in temporary, not as in the Transient package. Which is nice as well - good snippet!

[hmelman]

However I meant 'transient' as in temporary, not as in the Transient package.

Ah, I read fast and misunderstood.

Since symbol-overlay-put toggles the highlighting, I find it easy to turn off. There is symbol-overlay-mode which auto highlights the symbol under point which you may find useful.