Is there a way to highlight a string in a text (but not ALL

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Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T06:29:18+00:00 2026-05-11T06:29:18+00:00

Is there a way to highlight a string in a text (but not ALL such strings) in a buffer where font-lock-mode is on.

Let’s imagine I have a buffer with SQL mode and I want to highlight a string in it. The following code does not work

(set-text-properties 10 20 '(face hi-yellow))

When I call

(font-lock-mode -1)

it works, but all sql highlighting disappears.

There must be a solution because it’s possible to select a region and it will be highlighted but I can’t figure out how to do it programmatically

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2026-05-11T06:29:19+00:00

Both MarkerPens and Highlight provide functions to highlight a region.

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