MultiHighlight lets you highlight identifiers with custom colors (like Highlight Usages in File
), it's helpful when reading source code.
Default shortcut: Ctrl+' (or โ+' on mac).
- Install MultiHighlight directly from the IDE: File > Settings > Plugins > Browse Repositories... > search "MultiHighlight".
- Install from file.
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You can 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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change the default keyboard shortcut: File > Settings > Keymap > search "MultiHighlight".
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If you like IdeaVim, add following line to
~/.ideavimrc
and trigger MultiHighlight:" Press `'` to toggle highlight map ' :action MultiHighlight<CR> " Press `"` to clear all highlights in current editor map " :action MultiHighlight.ClearAction<CR>
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JDK 11 required, you can set
org.gradle.java.home
ingradle.properties
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To build MultiHighlight, clone and run
./gradlew buildPlugin
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To run IntelliJ IDEA with MultiHighlight installed, run
./gradlew runIde
.