Selection Highlighter

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Selection Highlighter

8,000 users

2020-06-07

https://neaumusic.com

jsw.james.wilson@gmail...

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Description

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

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