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In iTerm2 you can create triggers that highlight a line if your regex matches. This is great for some cases but I was wondering if it was possible to highlight only a word on a specific line.
The purpose of this is to help read my server logs where specific keywords can be easily pointed out. Highlighting the entire line is a bit distracting
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Enable highlighting with ⇧ ⌘ H , from the gear menu (⚙ Highlight Keywords), or open the keyword drawer using the highlighter icon in the lower left (near the gear menu).
shift + ← or shift + → to highlight text. shift + ctrl + ← or shift + ctrl + → to highlight an entire word.
Enable HighlightingIn your iTerm2 Profile settings (iTerm2 Preferences => Profiles) switch to Advanced and look for the Triggers section. Click Edit to add your own triggers. To solve my issue; we add a regular expression for the words we want to highlight.
A Profile-based trigger can highlight as much or little of a line as you choice (via the regex).
To highlight just a "word" in a line, you can create a simple Highlight Text trigger, i.e.:
Results in:
Ref: https://iterm2.com/documentation-triggers.html
Below is where you will find Triggers
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