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Highlight specific keywords in the terminal as they appear

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

Solution

  • 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.:

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    Results in:

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    Ref: https://iterm2.com/documentation-triggers.html

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