Highlight display text

In KLV, you can specify a set of highlighting rules which will be applied to the text that is displayed in the main window. Highlighting rules are evaluated from the top-down, and any text which matches a given highlight rule will have the specified effects applied.

You can show the Highlighting window in the following ways:

• Click Options > Highlighting menu.
• Click the Highlighting icon () in the toolbar.
• Press Ctrl-H.

Check or uncheck the box to activate or deactivate each rule. You can add or delete rules using the Highlight rules toolbar. Move rules up or down using the toolbar to change rule precedence.

Highlight rule configuration

• String to match: Input the string pattern you want to search for in the row of displayed text.

  • RegEx: If checked, this option specifies if the string to match is Regular Expression. (See Regular Expression Syntax.)

  • Invert match: If checked, the highlight will only be applied if a match is not found.

  • Ignore case: If checked, the string to match will be treated as case insensitive.

Highlight decorations

• Text color

• Background color

• Bold

• Italic

Download and upload favorites

If you are using different highlight settings for each file you are viewing, you may want to save your highlight settings to disk. You can also import and export your highlights to a text file. Use command line arguments to specify which favorite highlights are loaded when the program starts. See Command line arguments.

Jump to a highlighted lines

When highlighting is enabled, you can jump to the next highlighted line using the F8 key. Jump back to the previous highlighted line by pressing the F7 key.