Bug#902951: RFP: highlight-chars-el -- highlight specified sets of characters, including whitespace

[Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: minor

Package name    : highlight-chars-el
Version         : 0
Upstream Author : Drew Adams (concat "drew.adams" "@" "oracle" ".com")
URL             : https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/highlight-chars.el
License         : GPL-3+
Programming Lang: elisp
Description     : highlight specified sets of characters, including whitespace

This library provides commands and non-interactive functions for
highlighting the following:
  * Tab chars
  * Hard space (aka no-break space, aka non-breaking space) chars
  * Hard hyphen (aka non-breaking hyphen) chars
  * Trailing whitespace: tabs, spaces, and hard spaces at the end of
    a line of text
  * Any set of chars.  One can specify characters in four ways:
    (1) individually, (2) using ranges, (3) using character classes
    (e.g. [:digit:]), and (4) using character sets
    (e.g. `iso-8859-1' or `lao').

One can also specify characters that are excluded from highlighting.

--

I have upgraded the severity from wishlight to minor, because this
package provides functionality that is being dropped from
emacs-goodies-el (see Bug #590994).  When packaging
highlight-chars-el, please take care to use dh-elpa.

Regards,
Nicholas