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Turning off highlighting in text filters

TimH73 — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:18:31 GMT

Hello,

When I create a text filter, the text I'm filtering for is highlighted in every log entry in which it appears. While I can see how this might be useful in some cases, to me it's mostly annoying. Is there a way to turn it off?

-- Tim

RE: Turning off highlighting in text filters

LogViewPlus Support — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:18:31 GMT

Glad that helped Tim.

I will look into adding a setting to disable the main text filter highlight. Thanks for the suggestion!

Toby

RE: Turning off highlighting in text filters

TimH73 — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:43:28 GMT

Thanks. I was wondering what the "global highlight" setting did, especially since it didn't seem to affect the highlighting I was trying to get rid of. I wish there was a setting to turn it off the text filter highlighting entirely. To me, it creates a lot of distracting visual noise and makes the results harder to read, not easier. I realize that other users might not feel that way. That's why I think it should be a setting. It would be fine if it defaulted to being on. I just want the ability to turn it off.

-- Tim

RE: Turning off highlighting in text filters

LogViewPlus Support — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:20:11 GMT

Hi Tim,

The main highlight in yellow is a direct match for the current text search and cannot be turned off.

When you search for text, LogViewPlus will also create a global highlight by default. Global highlights will find the text in any filter across any open file. You can disable this default behaviour in application settings:

You can also disable global highlights on a per-search basis.

Hope that helps,

Toby