In addition to highlighting chars using a search string, allow the user to specify char ranges to be highlighted using a line/column syntax. This would provide a way to work around #70.
The meta string {a:b-c:d} would highlight characters from line a column b to line c column d.
For example, the following would highlight the string "Hello, world!":
This could be integrated together with line highlighting syntax, for example
{1,2-3,4:2-4:10}
Some other considerations include handling the case for highlighting a single char {4:10}, as well as ranges that mix line and char indexes {4-5:8} or {3:20-8}.
I used the colon for the delimiting character as an example 1:2-3:4, other possible options include a slash 1/2-3/4, dot 1.2-3.4, or pipe 1|2-3|4.
In addition to highlighting chars using a search string, allow the user to specify char ranges to be highlighted using a line/column syntax. This would provide a way to work around #70.
The meta string
{a:b-c:d}
would highlight characters from linea
columnb
to linec
columnd
.For example, the following would highlight the string
"Hello, world!"
:This could be integrated together with line highlighting syntax, for example
Some other considerations include handling the case for highlighting a single char
{4:10}
, as well as ranges that mix line and char indexes{4-5:8}
or{3:20-8}
.I used the colon for the delimiting character as an example
1:2-3:4
, other possible options include a slash1/2-3/4
, dot1.2-3.4
, or pipe1|2-3|4
.