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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
> steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) writes:
> 
> > What is that example supposed to do?  If you want to make text
> > highlight underneath the mouse you do
> > (put-text-property 1 4 'highlight t)
> > 
> > There is no 'mouse-face property documented in my copy of the manual.
> 
> No wonder it didn't work.  :-)  
> 
> Does that mean that you can't decide how the mouse-highlighting is to
> look?  Under Emacs you can use any face you want...

  The best way to do this is to set up buffer-specific face values for
'highlight' in the various mode hooks.  Like:

(set-face-foreground 'highlight "green" (current-buffer))

-Bill P.