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Rex - Highlight or Collapse Text

This extension allows to use regular expressions to highlight or collapse text on a web page. It was developed to facilitate log analysis (e.g. highlight important parts of stacktraces, collapsing framework noise)

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Features

  • Use regex to highlight text
  • Use regex to collapse text
  • Define different colors for each regex
  • Profiles to organize regex in groups
  • Url matcher to define on which pages profile should be active
  • Temporarily enable/disable regex

Todo

  • Allow to collapse text that contains other dom nodes (e.g. span for styling, images, ...)
  • Export settings and import them from URL (e.g. store settings in git with code)
  • (Auto?)-update imported settings
  • Execute custom JS

Why Rex?

The name is inspired by the austrian tv show "Inspector Rex". The main character, a german shephard named Rex, is a police dog that helps find evidence and solve crimes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Rex).

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This extension was inspired by linkuha/ext-resh.

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Chrome extension for regex highlighting or collapsing text.

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