MultiHighlight lets you highlight identifiers with custom colors (like Highlight Usages in File), it's helpful when reading source code.

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

• Install MultiHighlight directly from the IDE: File > Settings > Plugins > Browse Repositories... > search "MultiHighlight".
• Install from file.

• 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?)

  

• change the default keyboard shortcut: File > Settings > Keymap > search "MultiHighlight".

  

• 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>

• jdk 11 required.

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

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

check CHANGELOG.md for details