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### 5.8 Highlighting erroneous lines

Highlighting is implemented with overlays and happens in the process sentinel, after calling the cleanup function. Two customizable faces are used: `flymake-errline` and `flymake-warnline`. Errors belonging outside the current buffer are considered to belong to line 1 of the current buffer.