🖍 Text Marker (Highlighter)

This Sublime Text plugin allows temporarily and persistently marking all occurrences of selected words in a color; multiple marked selections can be added simultaneously, each marking the selections with different colors.

Optionally (enabled by default) it also highlights all copies of a word that currently has the insertion cursor upon it or which is currently selected.

Simply use Alt+Space to mark selected text.

Installation

• Recommended - Using Sublime Package Control
  • Ctrl+Shift+P then select Package Control: Install Package
  • install Text Marker
• Alternatively, download the package from GitHub into your Packages folder and make sure to rename the directory to “Text Marker”.

Usage

• Step over any word in your document, all occurrences of the word will be highlighted.

• Being over a word or having some selection, press Alt+Space to mark all.

• Alt+Escape clears all marked text.

• Each time you mark a word a different color will be used (colors are configurable in the settings)

Configuration

• Open settings using the command palette: Preferences: Text Marker Settings - User

• You can configure live word highlight directly from the command palette: Text Marker: Disable Live Highlight

• You can add mouse mappings to be able to mark text by using Ctrl+Click; simply add the following Sublime Text “mousemaps”:

[
  { "button": "button1", "modifiers": ["alt"], "command": "text_marker", "press_command": "drag_select" },
  { "button": "button1", "count": 2, "modifiers": ["alt"], "command": "text_marker_clear", "press_command": "drag_select" }
]

• You can config the color and appearing order in Text Marker Setting: Preferences - Package Setting - Text Marker Settings - User

{
    "user":
    {
        "default_colors":
        [
            "lightgreen",
            "lightcoral",
            "lightcyan",
            "lightgoldenrodyellow",
            "mistyrose",
            "olivedrab",
            "plum",
            "orange",
            "mediumslateblue",
            "teal",
            "tomato",
            "peachpuff",
            "yellowgreen",
            "whitesmoke",
        ]

    }
}

License

Copyright © 2018 German Mendez Bravo (Kronuz). All rights reserved.

MIT license

This plugin was initially a fork of https://github.com/SublimeText/WordHighlight/blob/master/word_highlight.py