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Subject: Text highlighting in Emacs
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Emacs 19 won't support text highlighting, but a later version will.

We have code basically working for attaching arbitrary properties to
parts of the text, including choice of font and color.

This feature is designed for attributes which are considered part of
the text itself.  What Epoch provides is highlighting that is part
of the presentation of the text, not logically part of the text itself.
That is useful also; I hope we will find the wherewithal to implement
that along with the other highlighting features.