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log-highlighter-plus

Jaroslaw Roszyk

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Highlight selected words or phrases in your code with custom colors. Supports case-sensitive and case-insensitive highlighting, color picking, and persistent storage of highlights.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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log-highlighter-plus

License: MIT

A Visual Studio Code extension to highlight words or phrases in any file using custom background colors.

✨ Features

  • ✅ Highlight selected text with persistent colors
  • 🧠 Optional case-insensitive matching
  • 🎨 Choose from popular preset colors or enter a custom hex
  • 💾 Highlights persist across VS Code sessions
  • 🧹 Remove individual or all highlights easily
  • 🔄 Auto-refresh highlights on edit or file change
  • 🖱️ Right-click context menu for quick access to highlight actions

🚀 Commands

Open Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P) and type:

  • Highlight Selection
  • Highlight Selection (Ignore Case)
  • Highlight With Custom Color
  • Remove Highlight
  • Remove All Highlights

These commands also appear in a dedicated Highlight submenu in the right-click context menu.

🎨 Color Options

You can choose from a list of popular colors:

  • Red
  • Blue
  • Green
  • Pink
  • Yellow
  • Orange
  • Purple
  • Light Gray

Or enter your own custom hex color (like #ff6600).

🛠 Example

Highlighting the word Email in red:

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🧹 Removing Highlights

Select the highlighted word again and use:

  • Remove Highlight → removes just that word
  • Remove All Highlights → clears all at once

These actions are available from both the Command Palette and the right-click Highlight submenu.

📝 Logging (Dev Info)

Internally, log messages (e.g., actions, errors) are output to a dedicated Output Channel for debugging and diagnostics.

📦 Installation

Option 1: From the Marketplace (recommended)

  1. Open Visual Studio Code
  2. Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X)
  3. Search for Log Highlighter
  4. Click Install

Or install directly from: 👉 Visual Studio Marketplace

Option 2: Manual .vsix Install

  1. Download the .vsix file from the Releases tab
  2. In VS Code, press Ctrl+Shift+P → Extensions: Install from VSIX...
  3. Select the downloaded file


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