blacklist symbols about symbol-overlay HOT 6 CLOSED

Maybe an option to always disable keywords?
I think every(?) mode has a keywords regex for font locking
e.g. python has python-font-lock-keywords which we could use.

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yeah, that sounds cool as a generic solution, if it can be made to work!

(i'm not familiar with the font lock internals.)

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Thanks for this plugin, it just amazing!

This is the only thing that I'm missing from highlight-symbol. That plugin has a setting that I use like this to ignore some highlights:

  (setq highlight-symbol-ignore-list
        '("False" "True" "None" "self" "def" "import" "from" "if" "else" "for"
          "while" "class" "print" "and" "not" "is" "param" "rtype" "async"
          "with" "."))

Hope you consider to add this. Thanks!

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i think a callback to determine whether a symbol should be ignored is the most generic solution. since the ignore list is likely to be dependent on the major mode (i see no other use case personally), a defcustom that maps major-mode to a function that returns nil or non-nil would be a sensible ‘dispatching mechanism’.

if you think this is a sensible approach, i can try to cook up a pr (when i find time) that implements this.

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i opened #18 with an unfinished implementation of the idea explained in my previous comments.

feedback welcome.

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#18 has been merged, improvements and additions should go into new pull requests.

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