I often use `hi-lock-symbol-at-point` and related functions for colouring stuff ephemerally, you can persist them if you find something that you need all the ti

I often use `hi-lock-symbol-at-point` and related functions for colouring stuff ephemerally, you can persist them if you find something that you need all the time. Extensive guide at https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/highlighting-by-word-line-regexp https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/highlighting-by-word-... (and of course many packages that expand on this). iimage-mode does the image thing Let me know when you implement commit masks in magit, that sounds handy :-)