Re: mode for highlighting/annotating log files or other docs?

[Brendan Miller]

Ok, to answer my own question, you can just assign keybindings to
these commands in order to colorize text:

facemenu-set-default
facemenu-set-bold
facemenu-set-italic
facemenu-set-bold-italic
facemenu-set-underline
facemenu-set-face
facemenu-set-foreground

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Format-Faces.html#Format-Faces

2010/6/23 Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net>:
> I have to work with large log files, and often have trouble keeping
> track of what's going on in different sections of the log.
>
> I was thinking it would be great if I had a way to mark parts of the
> text as different colors, so I had a visual way of keeping track of
> different segments of my logs. Like, maybe just select a region and
> issue a "make-blue" command or something like that.
>
> Another idea would be to have a margin off to the left which I could
> leave notes in.
>
> Is there any mode that implements something like this?
>
> Thanks,
> Brendan
>