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QuickHighLight

A VS Code extension that highlights selected words with customizable colors.
Supports 7 fixed colors, user-defined color sets, QuickPick UI, and cross-file highlighting.

✨ Features

QuickHighLight lets you highlight any word with a single action.

• 7 fixed color presets (fully customizable)
• Unlimited user-defined color sets
• QuickPick UI for selecting colors
• Context menu integration
• Highlights persist across open files
• Applying the same color to a new word automatically clears the previous one
• Toggle behavior (selecting the same color on the same word removes the highlight)

Perfect for code review, log analysis, proofreading, and more.

🖱 How to Use

1. Select a word

You can either select it or simply place the cursor on it.

2. Right-click → Highlight menu

You will see:

• 7 fixed colors
• Color Set List (QuickPick)
• Clear Highlights

3. Choose a color

• Applying the same color to a different word clears the previous highlight
• Applying the same color to the same word toggles it off

🎨 QuickPick UI

Ctrl+Shift+P → Highlight: Choose Color Set

The QuickPick shows:

• 7 fixed colors
• Separator
• User-defined colors
• ● indicator for active colors
• The highlighted word for each color

🧩 Customizing the 7 Fixed Colors

Add this to your settings.json:

"highlightWord.fixedColorSets": [
  { "name": "Caution",  "background": "#ff5555", "foreground": "#ffffff" },
  { "name": "Deep",     "background": "#4455aa", "foreground": "#ffffff" },
  { "name": "Emphasis", "background": "#ff8800", "foreground": "#ffffff" },
  { "name": "Info",     "background": "#5599ff", "foreground": "#ffffff" },
  { "name": "Marker",   "background": "#ffee55", "foreground": "#000000" },
  { "name": "OK",       "background": "#55cc55", "foreground": "#000000" },
  { "name": "Review",   "background": "#aa55cc", "foreground": "#ffffff" }
]

🎛 User-Defined Color Sets

Add any number of custom colors:

"highlightWord.colorSets": [
  { "name": "Soft Yellow", "background": "#ffeeaa", "foreground": "#000000" },
  { "name": "Deep Blue", "background": "#3366ff", "foreground": "#ffffff" }
]

🧠 Highlighting Rules

• Highlights are applied per word (case-sensitive).
• Highlights are applied across all open editors.
• Highlights are automatically re-applied when switching editors.
• One word per color — applying a color to a new word clears the previous highlight for that color.
• Toggle behavior — applying the same color to the same word removes the highlight.

📦 Commands

📄 License

MIT License

🔚 Notes

QuickHighLight aims to be a simple, stable, and pleasant highlighting tool.
Feedback and feature requests are always welcome.