A means of attracting attention by means of a visual prompt.
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1answer
18 views
ReadItLater-type app that saves web articles but also allows highlighting?
I use Pocket and I love it as a way of saving articles to read them later, and how it allows me to browse, search, and read them easily.
However, when I read articles, I like to create highlights ...
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1answer
33 views
Excel: Highlight all instances of a phrase like in notepad++
If I select a phrase in notepad++ it will highlight all other instances of that phrase.
Is there a way to do this in Excel as well?
Thanks for your help!
5
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1answer
156 views
Permanently highlight all occurrences of text in Notepad++?
In notepad++ if I select (eg. double-click) a "word", it gets highlighted. It needs to be separated with a non-alpha character from the rest of the text. The highlight remains until the text is ...
1
vote
0answers
91 views
New to terminator on linux. Why aren't scrollback searches highlighted?
I'm using terminator on linux/ubuntu. When I do ctrl+shift f, I get a prompt to enter a search key to search my scrollback (terminal output). However, as I go through the search results one by one, ...
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0answers
34 views
Browser extension or userscript that allows user-specified custom highlighting of web pages?
Recently I've found I have a need for a web browser enhancement that provides functionality for the user to define certain fields of certain web pages or sites to receive highlighting in various ...
2
votes
1answer
75 views
Changing Opera's source search highlighting color?
I'm running Opera 12.01 and the highlighting color for source searching is a very very faint gray - barely distinguishable.
After looking at this thread
How to change Opera's source search ...
0
votes
1answer
25 views
Highlight a phrase globally in the open document when double clicked in Geany
Is there an option to turn this on somewhere? Similar behaviour can be found in Notepad++ for example. Useful for immediately seeing where stuff gets used.
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1answer
37 views
Circle values that don't match any of the ones in a dropdown list
I created a dropdown list with values and assigned them to one of the columns in a table.
When I changed a few, then changed the name of items in the list and removed some I accidentally did some key ...
0
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1answer
494 views
Excel 2007 conditional formatting rule using formula to highlight a row based on matching text between columns
I am checking accountability of whether my office is creating source acknowledgement reports "C", recommended whenever a reference document "A" is read, and required whenever an article "B" is ...
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2answers
78 views
How to change the colour of the WildMenu background?
I want to change the colour of the WildMenu background but I don't know which highlight group I need to specify.
WildMenu is the highlighted state of whichever item you have selected, not the ...
1
vote
1answer
54 views
Automatically highlight certain words in Libre/OpenOffice
Is there a way to make LibreOffice automatically highlight certain words in some color?
I often write "todo" in files to remind me to come back later and finish something up, etc.
It would be very ...
0
votes
1answer
265 views
Linux terminal colour highlighting?
I'm wondering if it's possible to apply a customised highlighting scheme to linux terminal output, outside of the application that's generating the output. (Therefore, piping the output to some kind ...
1
vote
2answers
59 views
Simple document highlighting in Vim
I am looking for a filetype= argument that will format or color document
constructs such as lists, headers and sub headrs.
Particularly I want the filetype plugin (or syntax plugin) to interpret
...
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votes
1answer
204 views
Highlighting duplicate column-pair and counting the rows Excel
Given the data below, the column-pair with the same values for at least 4 consecutive rows should be highlighted.
Here's an image for better visualization:
2 2
3 4
3 4
3 4
3 4
2 3
1 2
...
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3answers
185 views
Highlighting duplicate column-pairs in Excel
Example, this is the data in Excel:
1 2
2 2
3 4
3 4
3 3
2 2
2 2
1 2
The rows which have consecutive duplicate column-pair values (in bold font) should be highlighted:
1 2
2 2
3 4
3 4
3 3
2 2
2 2
1 ...
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3answers
2k views
How to highlight data points in a scatter chart in excel?
I have a scatter chart with a series of numbers in Excel. Most of the time, those numbers are high (>1000). I would like to display the scatter chart with those numbers in the default color, but if ...
5
votes
2answers
202 views
Automatic highlighting of text in thunderbird
In days with large email influx, some emails tend to slip out of my attention. Usually these are email where I am not the primary recipient, but I am referenced at some point as having to perform some ...
2
votes
1answer
949 views
Use Notepad++ styles with Sublime Text 2
Is it possible to use notepad++ syntax themes/styles with sublime text 2?
If so, how do I do this.
I code COBOL programs, and love some of the features in sublime. But it lacks the syntax ...
1
vote
2answers
99 views
gnome terminal + vim's directory browser = underlines
Opening a directory up in Vim (using gnome-terminal) looks like this:
Notice the underline that shows which line we're currently on? Can this underline be changed or removed?
3
votes
2answers
197 views
How can I retain grep's match highlighting when piping find into grep?
If I run grep foo bar.txt, grep highlights each occurrence of "foo" in bar.txt. But sometimes I want to use find to determine which files grep searches. So I do something like this:
find . -iname ...
1
vote
2answers
971 views
How to highlight a text in pdf opened in web browser
When pdf file is opened in browser, extensions like Diggo cannot highlight the text in the pdf.
Are there any extensions or ways in which this can be achieved?
Or opening a pdf using a application ...
1
vote
1answer
91 views
How to highlight the searched item in Far manager?
Whenever I search an item(F7; Shift+F7) in a file via far manager editor(F4), I have trouble finding my cursor under the found item. It takes time to find it in the lines of code.
How can I highlight ...
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vote
1answer
258 views
Vim: How to change the current item highlight color when substituting
I have changed my Vim colours so when I do a /search, every match is highlighted in bright yellow. This makes matches much easier to see.
However, when I perform a substitution with the confirm flag ...
1
vote
1answer
59 views
Is there a browser extension for any browser that allows two “finds” in the page with different highlighting colours?
With most apps including browsers there is a "Find" function for searching for text in the current document. All instances of matching text are highlighted to make them easy to see.
But sometimes you ...
5
votes
2answers
497 views
How to change Opera's source search highlighting color?
Opera offers brilliant incremental search while searching ona website but when it comes to source searching ( Right button click -> Source -> Search ) it is not so beautiful.
By default : when ...
3
votes
1answer
1k views
Notepad++: I want to highlight questions in multiple colors?
I've written a script in Notepad++, and I want to highlight individual lines based on who is speaking. I'm just trying to find a place where I can change text color or background color for individual ...
4
votes
1answer
453 views
Looking for an addon in Firefox which save the highlight text
Is there an addon can save what user hightlight on the page and will be automatically loaded the on next time user visit that page again ?
Eg : I open http://www.mozilla.org/ and highlight We Believe ...
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vote
3answers
368 views
In vim, how I can set a local match only for a specific filetype?
in vim, I can set local configuration as
setlocal number
How I can set a local match only for specific filetype?
I use this:
autocmd! BufEnter *.py,.vimrc,*.sh,*.c* :match ColorColumn ...
4
votes
1answer
3k views
Custom gedit Syntax Highlighting for Dummies?
I want to make (have, actually) a custom syntax highlighting for gedit.
There would be just a few different items:
A line that begins with 2 tabs. ----- One color.
A line that begins with 3 tabs. ...
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vote
0answers
279 views
How do I get Windows 7 to highlight my icons again?
You know when your mouse goes over a desktop icon in Windows 7, a small box appears around it highlighting it? It's gone on my computer. And it annoys me because usually when I'm waiting for a program ...
1
vote
0answers
35 views
I would like to highlight/shade table cells in two colors
This does not seem like a possiblility unless I can highlight the text in a second color. Can I add more highlight colors to the options available?
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vote
2answers
2k views
Highlight text of emails in Outlook 2010?
Seems like this should be fairly simple, but I can't find a simple solution.
Is it possible to highlight the content of emails received in Outlook 2010 without creating an entirely new message?
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4answers
2k views
While renaming, How can I disable Windows 7 highlighting the entire filename when I click'n'drag across part of it?
This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to ...
0
votes
1answer
187 views
How to highlight my currently focused monitor (in multi-monitor display)
I have added a second monitor and am now working in a multi-monitor display (in Windows 7).
I have a constant problem with window focus, where I'm looking at one monitor, doing something with the ...
2
votes
1answer
428 views
Vim: yank highlighted text
I have a pattern highlighted and I want to copy all the text highlighted and paste it into another buffer. How can I do that?
2
votes
1answer
359 views
Windows: How to double-click on word and only highlight that word?
In any textbox or editor of any sort on any version of Windows, if you double-click on a word, it highlights both the word and any space or tab characters that follow it.
What is the use of this ...
2
votes
1answer
98 views
Select similar phrases in Microsoft Word
I need to select and highlight many sentences in which Microsoft Word in which the start word and the end word of the sentence/phrase is the same, but the content in between is different.
How can I ...
2
votes
1answer
2k views
Excel: Conditional Formatting (Highlighting) Values Based on Another Worksheet
I have a workbook that has two worksheets.
The first worksheet is simply a list of the first 78,498 prime numbers in a single column, A1-A78498.
The second worksheet has a grid of numbers from 1 to ...
3
votes
5answers
637 views
vim: highlighting a search term without moving the cursor
Using Vim, I sometimes find myself staring at a section of source code for a while and suddenly want some variable on the screen to pop out. That's easy: /<var> which highlights them all. My ...
3
votes
1answer
1k views
Placing tags around selected text in notepad++
Is there a plugin, macro, or some sort of option for placing tags around selected text after I highlight and begin typing?
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3answers
4k views
Notepad++: Rule based line highlighting
Is there a way to automatically highlight lines based on predefined rules in Notepad++?
I'm not talking about syntax highlighting, but rather about log files readability.
I'm looking either for a ...
2
votes
2answers
425 views
Setting up multiple highlight rules in vim
I am trying to set up rules to highlight both trailing whitespace and lines which are over a certain length by adding this to my .vimrc:
highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=lightgray guibg=lightgray
...
2
votes
1answer
441 views
How do you increase Dragging Speed for Mac OS X Applications?
Greetings! This question regards dragging stuff to parts of a document which are "off the screen". For example:
Dragging a spreadsheet in iWork Numbers to a part of the document that's "off the ...
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1answer
149 views
What is the best way to draw highlight an excel report cell for viewing and b/w printing
First off: I did search, and didn't find anything really duplicating what I want to ask, but it may be subjective, so I'll make it a community wiki.
I want to ask what the best way to highlight or ...
2
votes
1answer
396 views
How can I disable color highlighting and marks of versioning in NetBeans?
How can I disable color highlighting and marks of versioning in NetBeans? (in my case, mercurial)
PS: Now that I see, highlighting is on html tag attribute values, and doesn't respond to versioning, ...
1
vote
3answers
435 views
Mouse “Hilighter” program for Mac OS X to use in presentations
Is there a program that I can use as a
highlighter
pointer
zoomer
on Mac OS X (10.6.2) during presentations?
I don't have and don't want to use hardware one.
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votes
4answers
3k views
Remove VIM search highlight
After a search I've done, all the matches for the respective query remain highlighted and it's annoying. This happens even after I close the respective file (normal behavior?). How to I remove this?
3
votes
2answers
374 views
Customize Resharper Marker Bar
Is it possible to change the colour of the TODO/NotImplementedExceptions in the Resharper Marker Bar?
I find the cyan nearly impossible to see on the grey backround of the window.
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vote
1answer
662 views
Firefox addons to highlight all external links on a page
Are there any Firefox addons that highlight all external links on a page?
2
votes
2answers
2k views
How do I highlight multiple words in vim?
There is a cool vim script: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_multiple_words
I found the script today.
This script is what I want exactly.
It works well with gvim 7.2. (Both of Windows and Linux)
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