Text highlighting

[miguelos6]

Hi team

I came to MacOS already a while ago, but since I moved I'm still struggling to find the perfect editor for log analysis.
The missing feature always is ... highlighting text, so what we're looking for is more visible.
It's not about syntax highlighting, but making highlights on the go, while analyzing the file.

Currently I'm using a bit sluggish jedit (java) with highlights plugin :
https://plugins.jedit.org/plugindoc/Highlight/

The feature from N++ is presented here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMsiu_fH06Y

there are even custom enhancements to above that allows save highlights to external file, allowing to read them later and re-use for analysis.

[1024jp]

If your request means highlighting all the same strings, you could use CotEditor’s Multiple Replace feature. It’s named “Replace” but allows you to set multiple highlighting rules that can be saved and reused.

If you want to highlight a specific range of characters, unfortunately CotEditor does not currently have such a feature. I think the request #300 that has already been made is close to what you are looking for.

[miguelos6]

this one works, but is very limited
The idea is to :

• have different highlight colors for different things, so while scrolling you can quickly find the interesting this by color only
• have saved list of searches, so with 1 click you could have list of results, like predefined searches.