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MultiHighlight

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Highlight identifiers with custom colors, helpful for reading source code.

Default shortcut: Ctrl + ' and Ctrl + Shift + ' (or ⌘ + ' and ⌘ + ⇧ + ' on mac).

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Install

To install MultiHighlight, you have two options:

  1. Install directly in the IDE:
  • Go to File | Settings | Plugins | Marketplace.
  • Search "MultiHighlight" then click install.
  1. Install from file:
  • Download MultiHighlight.zip in Releases.
  • Go to File | Settings | Plugins, click on the gear icon on the top-right corner of the window, select "Install Plugin from Disk", navigate to the location of your downloaded zip file then select it and click ok.

Features

Highlight identifiers

  • Highlight variables, methods or classes with custom colors.
  • Show highlighted strip marks on the scrolling bar for easy navigation.
  • Show the number of highlights on the status bar for quick reference.

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Highlight control flow

Highlight control flow keywords such as return or throws to make them stand out.

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Highlight plain text

Select and highlight plain text in log files, documents or code comments.

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Highlight with specified color

Choose specified color to highlight, default shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + ' (or ⌘ + ⇧ + ' on mac).

Tips: press the shortcut twice will highlight with the default color.

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Clear all Highlights

The action to clear all highlights in current editor is not assigned to a keyboard shortcut by default. If you need it, add keyboard shortcut in settings: File | Settings | Keymap | search "MultiHighlight".

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Customize color palette

Customize your highlight text style (bold/italic, foreground, background, stripe and effect style) in setting page.

Tips: Here is material design color palette, they are bright and vibrant colors. (what is material design?)

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Build & Run

  • JDK 17 is required, set JAVA_HOME environment variable, or set Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Gradle | Gradle JVM in IDEA settings.

    • Java 21 is required when targeting 2024.2 and later only.
    • Java 17 is required (blog post) when targeting 2022.2 and later only.
    • Java 11 is required (blog post) when targeting 2020.3 and later only.

    Build Number Ranges | IntelliJ Platform Plugin SDK

  • To build MultiHighlight, clone and run ./gradlew buildPlugin.

  • To run IntelliJ IDEA with MultiHighlight installed, run ./gradlew runIde.

Change Log

check CHANGELOG.md for details.