feature request: highlight multiple buffer about symbol-overlay HOT 4 CLOSED

Could you not just get a list of visible buffers with
something like (mapcar 'window-buffer (window-list))
and then maybe check with project.el that project
and major-mode match?

This has nothing to do with projects or major modes afaict.

The complexity this would add is:

• Have to determine visible windows in the current frame
• Couldn't toggle symbol-overlay-mode in individual buffers: it would have to be a global mode
• Have to add/remove overlays across several buffers, so overlay list can no longer be buffer-local
• Have to remove overlays when buffers become invisible in the frame in which they were added

Look at the code of avy, for comparison, which works like this. You'll see it's much more complex than symbol-overlay.

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That would be quite complex and is almost certainly out of scope for this package.

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@purcell is it really that difficult?
Could you not just get a list of visible buffers with
something like (mapcar 'window-buffer (window-list))
and then maybe check with project.el that project
and major-mode match?

I don't have any interest in this feature myself,
just curious why this would be complex and out of scope.

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Going to close this one for the above reasons, sorry, but thanks for the suggestion.

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