This package provides an easy way to highlight words in programming modes, where terms can be highlighted on code, comments or strings. ; Usage Write the following code to your .emacs file: (require 'hl-prog-extra) (hl-prog-extra-global-mode) Or with `use-package': (use-package hl-prog-extra) (hl-prog-extra-global-mode) If you prefer to enable this per-mode, you may do so using mode hooks instead of calling `hl-prog-extra-global-mode'. The following example enables this for org-mode: (add-hook 'python-mode-hook (lambda () (hl-prog-extra-mode)))