Selection Highlighter

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Highlight occurrences of selected text, with or without a keypress.

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Description from store For code inspection and document analysis: search for and find keywords. - No need to press CMD+F - Maintains current selection - Open source and configurable options (JavaScript) - Ensure a "gate" key is pressed - Match whole word and/or case-insensitive - Blacklist bad hosts and ancestor HTML nodes Highlight works on all sites, including GitHub, StackOverflow, HackerNews, Reddit, etc. See all code involved: 1. Dev Console -> Sources -> Content Scripts -> Selection Highlighter 2. chrome://extensions -> Selection Highlighter -> Options -> Dev Console -> Sources https://github.com/neaumusic/selection-highlighter

Latest reviews

(2023-04-27) Jake Z: Exactly what I wanted. Double click a word and it highlights all occurrences on the page. I like how transparent the developer tries to be.
(2023-04-20) Phezylus notiles: util
(2023-01-16) Yuhe Chen: Love this extension, simple and efficient. Wondering if there's way to toggle multiple highlighting, i.e when selecting new words, add the new highlight (maybe in a different color) and also keep the previous highlight. There are some cases that I want to grep for multiple keyword. Thanks in advance.
(2022-11-21) JOCLEY QUEIROZ ARAUJO: Muito prático. Todos os desenvolvedores deveriam disponibilizar o código fonte da extensão como esse cara. Parabéns
(2022-10-24) Kevin MacDowell: Love it but in the last week or two it seems to have stopped working for me.
(2022-10-04) Ikai Kaimi: Works but not on Google Docs which I'm trying to use it for so I can mass edit docs.
(2022-10-01) Travis Stone: Doesn't work
(2022-08-03) Ak: awesome work bests
(2022-06-28) Clemens Ratte-Polle: Selection Highlighter is the fastest Highlighter Addon :) Suggestion: make multi highlighting per STRG. Every text selected with Strg key gets also marked :)
(2022-04-19) Laurence Lok: Perfect!
(2022-04-06) Josh Howard: I was getting irritated trying to follow some things and about to go write one of these. Yours works perfectly, thanks for saving me the time and keeping open source.
(2022-03-16) JW Kirk: Excellent tool. Thank you!
(2022-03-01) 履霜: 很好用，感谢！
(2022-02-04) Jesse Lee: BEST! love it so much, thank you!
(2022-01-29) Camilo Urán: Five stars! It's so simple, and yet I can change everything in the Options page. Color, regexp...this is an amazing extension. Love it, can't live without it! Doing code review without this extension is much much harder. Once again, amazing work! Love this one
(2021-11-19) Mohamed Ahmed: It's very useful extension, but there's a problem with the extension in code snippets in Microsoft Docs site, for example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/migration/22-to-30?view=aspnetcore-5.0&tabs=visual-studio#authorization-for-specific-endpoints try highlighting text in the code snippets area
(2021-11-02) Denys Čumak: doesn't work
(2021-08-11) Rock Zhang: Very useful when reading code in page.
(2021-07-23) Altynbek Aidarbekov: Thank you very much!
(2021-03-23) Arshanskiy Sergey: не работает
(2021-02-27) Stephen S: My brain hurts while looking at code. Only just thought of looking for a plugin for this. A1 piece of extension. EDIT: It wasn't working on all pages and just relised that the plugin had been updated. The default settings are better now after a reset to default. A few tweaks the plugin is working brilliantly again.
(2021-01-29) Jake Wu: This extension literally saves lives! The only unfortunate part is that it does not work in Jupyter notebooks (example: https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml2/blob/master/01_the_machine_learning_landscape.ipynb)
(2021-01-22) Magno Alberto: Very useful extension! Thanks
(2021-01-18) Emm N.: Awesome! I got used to that feature in Notepad++ and whoa!... now I can use it in news articles and other text media. Thank you!
(2020-11-17) Ryan Cuthbertson: I'm happy my minor reported bug got fixed. I love the new scroll bar marking for the highlights, great feature! Very helpful extension.
(2020-11-03) Mojtaba Vahdati: An extension cannot be cooler than this!
(2020-10-22) Austin Chang: Great extension. Good Job James!
(2020-10-19) xing zhi jiang: use experience is good
(2020-10-05) An Vinh Nguyen: This is a must for every one using chrome! Developer or not, this help you read
(2020-07-27) zack h: I like it, from Chrome to Edge.
(2020-02-21) Andrii Vdovenko: Thanks a lot! Exactly what I need.
(2020-01-29) 213 Astatine: What's the meaning of "gate" key is pressed? It doesn't seem to work on my computer.
(2020-01-24) Evan Z.: good
(2020-01-13) Игорь Зинченко: А ГДЕ ТАКАЯ КЛАВИША "CMD" ?
(2019-11-13) Sakshi Kanojia: This isn't working on my computer.
(2019-08-27) mostafa م: It works so fast. Thank you for this great work.
(2019-08-26) Wojciech Rozwadowski: It'll be awesome if we can also highlights on scroll bar - is that possible? And +1 for case insensitive
(2019-08-19) Adam Vernon: I love this! One request: please add support for optional case insensitivity. I like to use the highlight feature when reading non-code as well, and this would help with that. Thanks!
(2019-06-06) baby bat: Что-то нихера не работает, видимо чего-то не понимаю в программизме. Поставлю 1 свою непрограммистскую звезду.
(2019-03-29) Roy Moor: Highly recommendable! Simple, almost works as expected. Easy click and done. Also configuring it is a great feature for more flexibility. But does not work for words with lengths less than 3. This limitation is not configurable. If this was configurable, this extension would be amazing. This extension would be epic if it was also configurable to leave the already selected hightlights on so one can highlight different words with several clicks at the same time. This extension would be divine if these multi highlights would appear with different colors per highlight.
(2019-02-26) Excellent! Even better than in npp
(2019-02-12) Isaac Elbaz: Very nice! I use it all the time
(2019-01-21) Colin: Love it How can we change the color I tried to modify 'yellow' to 'red' in following two files but it does not work: Default/Extensions/nepmkgohgoagfgcoegjaggacodcpdibj/2.19_0/optionsPage.js Default/Extensions/nepmkgohgoagfgcoegjaggacodcpdibj/2.19_0/highlighter.js
(2018-12-04) Claudiu: Very useful extension!
(2018-11-11) WASD: Good stuff, add some options to costumize selection which should be pretty simple :D
(2018-09-07) Tianze Zhao: Super useful
(2018-08-29) joeri lock: Simple, works as expected.
(2018-04-25) Guillaume Simard: Best I've found so far. Simple, to the point, open source.
(2018-01-12) Tommy Wi: Really helps browsing on stackoverflow or other coding websites. PS: If you have feature requests, just open an issue on his github. Quiet unfair to give low ratings because of that.
(2017-11-14) Very handy, but can we have the option of using a key modifier to activate the selection? Ctrl or Shift while selecting?

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