🖍️ Highlight-It: VS Code Highlight Extension

This extension allows you to highlight text in your editor using multiple colors, helping you mark important code areas, annotate sections, or visually separate logic blocks.

✨ Features

• Highlight selected text using customizable colors.
• Choose from Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink, and Orange.
• Toggle highlights on/off by selecting the same region.
• Multiple colors can exist simultaneously in a file.
• Highlights persist per file during the session.
• Automatically adds a blank line if needed for proper display.
• Clear highlights for the current file or stop highlighting completely.

📘 Usage Instructions

1. Open the Command Palette: Ctrl + Shift + P
2. Run one of the following commands:

Start Highlighting

Run the Highlight: Start Highlighting command, then select text in your editor. The selected text will be highlighted with the currently selected color.

Set Highlight Color

Run the Highlight: Set Highlight Color command to choose a color for your highlights. You can select from Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink, and Orange. The selected color will be used for all new highlights.

Clear Highlights

Run the Highlight: Clear Highlights command to remove all highlights from the current file. This will not affect highlights in other files.

Stop Highlighting

Run the Highlight: Stop Highlighting command to disable highlighting mode. This will clear all highlights from all files and stop the extension from highlighting any text.

Video Guide

For a complete walkthrough of the extension, check out this video guide: Complete Guide

🧑‍💻 Developer Guide

Source Code

The source code for this extension is available on Highlight-It.

Commands

Ensure the following commands are defined in your package.json:

{
  "contributes": {
    "commands": [
      {
        "command": "extension.highlightSelection",
        "title": "Highlight: Start Highlighting"
      },
      {
        "command": "extension.setHighlightColor",
        "title": "Highlight: Set Highlight Color"
      },
      {
        "command": "extension.clearHighlights",
        "title": "Highlight: Clear Highlights"
      },
      {
        "command": "extension.stopHighlighting",
        "title": "Highlight: Stop Highlighting"
      }
    ]
  },
  "activationEvents": [
    "onCommand:extension.highlightSelection",
    "onCommand:extension.setHighlightColor",
    "onCommand:extension.clearHighlights",
    "onCommand:extension.stopHighlighting"
  ]
}

Contributing

1. Fork the Highlight-It Repository
2. Create a new branch for your feature or bugfix
3. Submit a pull request with a clear explanation

Suggestions for new color options, persistent highlight storage, or UI enhancements are welcome!

⚠️ This extension is licensed under the MIT License, but commercial use is not permitted without explicit written permission from the author.

👤 Author

Created and maintained by Sarvesh Mankar
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