Questions tagged [highlighting]
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How to identify PDF pages that contain highlighted text via command-line
Assume a pdf document that contains text highlights on pages 1, 3 and 14. Is there a Linux command-line tool (or a set of tools whose output can be piped to each other) that can report the page ...
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Random freezes, pointer moves, no response to clicks
Why is my laptop freezing?
Screen randomly freezes, I can move pointer but no response to clicking. Cannot alt-tab through windows.
This happens in firefox and chromium. Ran memtester, all ok. Set FF ...
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Tmux vi copy mode selection - character under cursor is not highlighted
If I switch to copy mode in tmux (vi mode), and begin selecting text using v, the character that is directly under the cursor is never highlighted properly even though it is selected (i.e. if I copy ...
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How to enable the highlighting of the file "/etc/login.defs" on Ubuntu?
When I open the file /etc/login.defs on a RHEL 8.3 system, it looks like this:
As you can see, it highlights the content. But when I open the same file in a Ubuntu 20.04 system, there is no ...
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less a file with JSON rows - how to highlight/colorize the rows?
I have log files with json rows inside - less displays it as just plain text
Can I colorize the output with less abilities?
As well as I didn't find any less-compatible third party tool with json ...
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Current date in cal is not highlighted in recent Debian
As answered in Highlight the current date in cal
the current date in output form cal is automatically highlighted (reverse colors) if the output goes to terminal.
That's what I had always been ...
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Retain selection highlight after copying text to clipboard in tmux
I'm using macOS and tmux 3.1c. When copying a text via mouse selection, the highlight will be auto-cleared after copying the text to clipboard, this will make it difficult to keep track the last line ...
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Kubuntu - Strange Copy-Paste behaviour after upgrade to 20.04
I recently upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04 with Kubuntu. I had to delete Python2 to do it, but it worked.
However, since the update, something strange is occuring with the copy paste function. A piece of ...
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Custom colors for ls are correctly applied for some categories, but ignored for others
With the help of dircolors, I changed ls colors. My .dircolors file is
FILE 00;97
DIR 00;96
LINK 00;95
MULTIHARDLINK 00;34
ORPHAN ...
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How to highlight a screen session of an ssh connection?
Others have asked (How to scroll inside a screen session of an ssh connection?) on how to scroll within a screen session. However, while I can highlight what is shown in front of me, I can't figure ...
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Why the result of "dir" doesn't have highlighting?
I'm on Oracle Linux.
[root@ol76 systemd]# cat /etc/*release*
Oracle Linux Server release 7.6
NAME="Oracle Linux Server"
VERSION="7.6"
ID="ol"
VARIANT="Server"
VARIANT_ID="server"
VERSION_ID="7.6"
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High lighting a word in vim/bash
While I was working on the terminal (mac os)
I pressed wrong combo then the 'def' word highlightend. I found it is very useful.
How to turn on and turn off highlight on a word? (shortcut key, no ...
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How to configure the "most" pager to highlight all matches on search?
I have been using the "most" pager for couple of years,
but when searching and jumping and navigating between the matches ( with n and p ) the cursor is quite small (I barely notice it), so i'd like ...
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Linux terminal: Keyword highlighting similar to MobaXTerm without piping
When I SSH into a Linux machine from Windows using MobaXTerm, I get the benefit of syntax highlighting (https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/features.html --> see Syntax highlighting in terminal). It ...
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Can't highlight words in terminal
I have been using the gnome Terminal for 3 months already, but today I can't highlight the words on the terminal suddenly. I can't do so on nedit as well. When I use the 'find' function in nedit to ...
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