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I would light to highlight where prettify-symbols-mode has prettified a symbol. For example, if Emacs displays lambda as λ it could be displayed with a gray background, but if a literal λ occurs in the text, the background would remain white.

How can I achieve this?

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You could add another matcher using the same regexp as prettify-symbols-mode, i.e. something like this:

(font-lock-add-keywords
 nil
 `((,(regexp-opt (mapcar 'car prettify-symbols-alist) t)
    (0 (when (funcall prettify-symbols-compose-predicate
                      (match-beginning 0)
                      (match-end 0)
                      (match-string 0))
         '(:background "grey80"))
       append)))
 'append)
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  • This works, but when prettify-symbols-unprettify-at-point is t this also highlights the replaced string when cursor is at the prettified symbol. Is that a way to hightlight only the prettified symbol but not its original string? The reason is that I'm trying to use a face with a different font that has a symbol for the prettified symbol, but not for the original replaced characters. – darcamo Jun 26 '20 at 15:53

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