I posted earlier about why org-remove-occur-highlights ignored it's options of beg and end. I'm fairly sure it was so they could be implemented later. I wanted to use this functionality, so I've implemented it. This should not change any current behaviour. If beg and end are nil, it will run the same way as before. This is called as part of org-sparse-tree, and my changes do not affect that. When beg and end are non-nil, it checks which overlays are between those two points and deletes them. I've ensured that 'make test' still passes and believe I've formatted my changelog entry as required.

If I'm missing something about how this should be working, please let me know.

My copyright paperwork with FSF is currently in progress, but I wanted to put this out there to get comments as necessary.

Thanks,
Nick