mode for highlighting/annotating log files or other docs?

[Brendan Miller]

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

[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 <catp...@catphive.net>:

[unfrostedpoptart]

On Jun 23, 4:17 pm, Brendan Miller <catph...@catphive.net> wrote:
> 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...
>
> 2010/6/23 Brendan Miller <catph...@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 never knew about this and it looked interesting. However, when I
tried it, I found it is useless in any buffer that is using a font-
lock mode, which is 99% of everything I do.
Any way to get this to work, or something similar, for font-locked
buffers?

David

[Fren Zeee]

I think a solution would help many people.

[Vagn Johansen]

unfrostedpoptart <da...@therogoffs.com> writes:

hi-lock-mode

See the manual under "Interactive Highlighting"

--
Vagn Johansen

[Drew Adams]

> 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?

In addition to what others have mentioned to you, you might consider using
bookmarks.

With Bookmark+, you can tag bookmarks (in addition to annotating them), and you
can highlight them in various ways.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus