How do I hilite a specific line in a buffer?

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From: John Vella
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1993 19:31

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i just switched over to epoch a few days ago after using emacs
version 18.58 for several years.  i really like the extended x-
window support, and now i want to take advantage of one aspect
of the new capabilities.  i would like to be able to, from
within a lisp function, do the following steps:

   1. goto a specific line in the buffer
   2. hilite the text between columns <start> and <end>
   3. goto another line in the buffer
   4. hilite some text in this line, without unhiliting the
      previously hilted text in step #2.


i need help with steps #2 and #4.

thanks in advance (email replies please)

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