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    Default highlighted text in JTextArea

    How to highlight text in JTextArea and save it permanently


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    Default Re: highlighted text in JTextArea

    Look at the DefaultHighlightPainter class and the JTextArea class's getHighlighter() method for highlighting.
    To save data write it to disk.
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