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Pipe to less but keep the highlighting
Use the --human parameter to view colored dmesg output in a less-like environment.
dmesg --human --color=always
Or use the short version:
dmesg -H
Alternatively, use the following command to ...
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Vim: How to change the current item highlight color when substituting
When inside vim you can use the command mode:
:highlight IncSearch guibg=green ctermbg=green term=underline
To have it always, put this into your .vimrc:
highlight IncSearch guibg=green ctermbg=green ...
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Notepad++: Rule based line highlighting
As stated before me:
Select Language > Define your language... (or View Language > User-Defined Dialog..., or Language > User-Defined, depending on version and localisation file)
In my case. I ...
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How to highlight the current row and column like a crosshair in Libreoffice?
Lupp has recently created an example spreadsheet that uses macros for this behavior. It's posted at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43531#p431848.
However, he remarks at AskLO ...
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Highlight all instances of a given word in a PDF.
Open the PDF using Firefox browser and click the "highlight all" button after you open the Find dialog.
Find Dialog
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How to change Chrome highlight color
There is now a new and more easy to use chrome extension that does this.
Its called Custom Highlight and you can install it here.
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How to customize/remove Chrome yellow highlight from search result hash bang
Check this reddit thread.
It says that the setting is called ScrollToTextFragmentEnabled, and it could be disabled via Chrome Enterprise Policy.
This worked on Mac:
$ defaults write com.google.Chrome ...
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highlighting cell with value closest to zero
This is the solution created by @JohnSUN, who asked me to provide screenshots of an English EXCEL version. The trick is to use his formula and 'Use a formula to determine which cells to format' as ...
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How/where does a GoPro camera store HiLight tags?
I’ve found the HiLight tags: they are stored in the MP4 files themselves.
In particular, the tags are stored in a box with type HMMT in the User Data Box (udta) of the Movie Box (moov) of the MPEG-4 ...
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How do I extract highlighted text only from PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Pro version 9?
Some solutions from Extract all the highlighted text from a PDF:
mendeley
PDF Comment Extractor (non gratis)
PDF Highlight Extractor (gratis)
Retroactively Copy Highlighted Text into Comment (non ...
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Highlight all instances of a given word in a PDF.
Once you have pressed Ctrl+F and searched the word, if you press Shift+Enter, it would higlight all the words matching your inquiry
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Highlighting the current line in vim via the sign ('gutter') column
In your ~/.vimrc you can use
:set number
:set cursorline
:hi cursorline cterm=none
:hi cursorlinenr ctermfg=red
This stops the cursor line being drawn as a line in a colour terminal, but the line ...
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Notepad++ Default matching tag highlight
Follow these Steps:
Settings > Style Configurator > Languages> Global Style > Smart Highlighting..
choose any colour in "Background colour" option and click save
This "smart ...
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Excel - Highlight Unique Values Across a Row, Apply to Multiple Rows
Select all your Data,
Click on Conditional Formatting
Use a formula to determine which cells to format and in the box write:
=COUNTIF($A1:$C1,A1)=1
or
=COUNTIF(RC1:RC3,RC)=1 (with R1C1 ...
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highlighting cell with value closest to zero
here is another formula, it's easier to read, also it'll highlight also 0 (which won't be highlighted by currently posted answer).
=ABS(C2)=MIN(ABS($C$2:$C$11))
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Underlining search results in vim (instead of highlighting them)
As another answer noted, you can set the syntax highlighting of search results by targetting Search
:highlight Search guibg=guibg guifg=guifg gui=italic,underline,bold
Setting the guibg and guifg to ...
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Tool for comparing two images?
I've just found this user-friendly app, DiffImg http://sourceforge.net/projects/diffimg/
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How to change Chrome highlight color
If you're on a mac, you can change the system highlight color, which will change the color of the highlighting in chrome.
System Preferences > General > Highlight Color
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How to change Chrome highlight color
There's also this Chrome extension called Highlight Color which does exactly that
And actually looks pretty neat from what I can see from the screenshots.
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VBA: Change highlight color (RGB not wbColor) with keyboard shorcut (MS Word 2013)
I believe the answer to "Can we change the highlight color" is No. The HighlightColorIndex must refer to an "Applies to" list of constants. The set for the WdColorIndex constants (MSDN Word 2003) ...
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Vim syntax highlighting lost on single file
Try deleting any saved views (i.e. from mkview). I often have this problem if I didn't cleanly exit all my vims when I logout/shutdown. If you've set something like
au BufWinLeave ?* mkview
in your ....
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How to keep highlighted text in notepad ++ even if I restart my computer?
According to this post as well as several others that I have read, this is not a feature and cannot be achieved as of now.
Notepad++
-Only allows you to mark the words for the time being.
-If ...
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Highlight selected objects in LibreOffice Draw
In the bugreport linked by Joe P, a better workaround was brought up after I posted my examples there: Pressing "F8" to toggle "points-mode", where the highlights look pretty much like in Powerpoint.
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Excel highlight particular text in a sentence
I found myself asking the same question, maybe it's still relevant for some others. How to execute the code in Excel:
Developer tools
Visual Basic
Insert Module
Paste the code in the Module window
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How to highlight 3 consecutive cells w/ a 0
Try this Conditional Formatting Solution. You have not mentioned what version of Excel you have. This solution works in Excel 2013 and should also work in lower versions ideally. The interface could ...
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When I highlight a text and and click "search in google", the selection messes up
Have you tried to see if you have ClickLock ON?
Open Control Panel go to Mouse and see if it's ticked.
Hope this helps!
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How to highlight blank cells in a row only when both adjacent cells in the row are blank?
Apply the formula Conditional Formatting to range B2:C11
Formula is: =AND(($B2=$C2),(ISBLANK($B2)=TRUE))
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How do I quickly circle part of an image to highlight it in Photoshop as I would in Paint?
For hand-drawn, the brush tool is probably easiest...
For a more professional look, try a rounded rectangle...
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How to customize/remove Chrome yellow highlight from search result hash bang
This feature is described by Chrome in the article
ScrollToTextFragmentEnabled group policy.
It was only recently added to Chrome and may still be evolving.
It is not supported by other browsers ...
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Pipe to less but keep the highlighting
A generic command to preserve coloration independent of the program providing the output is the unbuffer command (which is part of the expect package).
Usage:
unbuffer dmesg | less -R
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