highlighting

[Erik Hatcher]

I would like to have highlighting of selected field(s) in Solr search  
results.  Certainly a custom request handler can do this, but I'm  
curious if the standard handler and configuration should evolve to  
handle the common need for search term highlighting, and if so how  
would that ideally look in the configuration and search request?

I am game for developing the highlighting piece in some way in the  
next few days, and would gladly contribute that feature back provided  
it was done in a way that fits with Solr's architecture.

Thanks,
        Erik