Highlighting

tin.highlight adds configurable markers around the text that produced the match. A match on pineapple returns '<b>pineapple</b>'. tin.highlight_ansi does the same with ANSI colors for a terminal.

`tin.highlight(text [, begin_tag [, end_tag [, query]]])`

tin.highlight(text, begin_tag, end_tag, query) → text

Argument	Type	Default	Notes
`text`	`text`	—	Document text to highlight (usually the indexed column).
`begin_tag`	`text`	`'<b>'`	Opening tag wrapped around each match. May contain the placeholders described under Tag placeholders.
`end_tag`	`text`	`'</b>'`	Closing tag wrapped around each match.
`query`	`text`	`NULL`	TINQL used to find match spans. When omitted, the `==>` predicate on the same column in the statement’s `WHERE` clause is used.

Returns document text with matched spans wrapped in tags. Highlighting marks exactly the text that produced the match. For a BEFORE b, only the b occurrences that satisfy the relation are wrapped. When query is omitted, the predicate is found anywhere in the same statement, including subqueries, CTEs, and DML (RETURNING, MERGE actions, ON CONFLICT).

-- Query taken from the ==> predicate on body
SELECT id, tin.highlight(body)
FROM posts
WHERE body ==> 'apple'
LIMIT 20;

-- Witnessing spans only
SELECT tin.highlight('b a b', query => 'a BEFORE b');
--  b <b>a</b> <b>b</b>      (the leading b precedes no a — unmarked)

-- Automatic query in DML RETURNING
UPDATE posts SET reviewed = true
WHERE body ==> 'urgent'
RETURNING id, tin.highlight(body);

-- Explicit tags + query
SELECT tin.highlight(body, '<mark>', '</mark>', 'apple')
FROM posts
WHERE id = 1;

Tag placeholders

begin_tag can carry two placeholders that TIN fills in for each highlighted span.

Placeholder	Replaced with
`$QUERY_PART`	The part of the query that matched the span, HTML-escaped. For a wildcard or regular expression this is the pattern that matched, such as `MATCHES email.*`.
`$QUERY_LABEL`	The same information as a token that is safe in a CSS class: lowercased, with punctuation collapsed to `-`.

SELECT tin.highlight('send email now', '<b title="$QUERY_PART">', '</b>', 'email*');
--  send <b title="MATCHES email.*">email</b> now

-- One CSS class per query part
SELECT id, tin.highlight(body, '<mark class="hl-$QUERY_LABEL">', '</mark>')
FROM posts
WHERE body ==> 'apple OR "fuji apple"';

When two matches overlap or touch, they merge into one highlight whose placeholders list every query part involved, so tags never nest or interleave.

`tin.highlight_ansi(text [, wrap_to [, query]])`

tin.highlight_ansi(text, wrap_to, query) → text

Argument	Type	Default	Notes
`text`	`text`	—	Document text to highlight.
`wrap_to`	`integer`	`NULL`	When set to a positive width, rewraps the text before highlighting.
`query`	`text`	`NULL`	TINQL used to find match spans. When omitted, the `==>` predicate on the same column in the statement’s `WHERE` clause is used.

Returns document text with ANSI color highlighting for matched spans.

SELECT tin.highlight_ansi(body)
FROM posts
WHERE body ==> 'apple'
LIMIT 5;

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