README.md

Purpose

This extension's purpose is to help emphasize user-specified "trigger words" in certain file types.

Features

Highlighting

Whole-line Highlighting

• If a trigger word is detected, the entire line is highlighted lightly, and the matched word is emphasized heavily.

Automatic and Manual Triggering

• Files with '.log' extension are automatically highlighted when the file is opened and "live" as the file is modified
• Other files can be manually highlighted by triggering the 'Show Trigger Words' command from the Command Pallette

Highlighting Details

• "Error", "Err", "Failure", "Fail", "Critical" and "Crit" are highlighted red.
• "Warning" and "Warn" are highlighted yellow.
• "Information" and "Info" are highlighted blue.
• "Success", "Successful" and "Succeeded" are highlighted green.

Parsing

Not available for initial release.

Future Features

Highlighting

• User-specified words/RegEx
• User-specified colors
• Whole-line highlighting
  • Entire line highlighted light (25a691f)
  • Matched word highlighted dark (25a691f)
  • Enable user toggle
• Optional Gutter markers
  • Color matched

Parsing

• Provide canned RegEx to detect date, level and message.
• Optional user-supplied RegEx

Extension Settings

No configurable settings at this time.

Known Issues

To report issues, use this link.

• Comments are not ignored at this time.
• Switching between supported and non-supported languages can prevent highlighting updates.

Release Notes

Reference CHANGELOG for documentation about changes made to this repository