Rex - Highlight or Collapse Text
This extension allows to use regular expressions to highlight or collapse text on a web page. It was developed to facilitate log analysis (e.g. highlight important parts of stacktraces, collapsing framework noise)
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Features
- Use regex to highlight text
- Use regex to collapse text
- Define different colors for each regex
- Profiles to organize regex in groups
- Url matcher to define on which pages profile should be active
- Temporarily enable/disable regex
Todo
- Allow to collapse text that contains other dom nodes (e.g. span for styling, images, ...)
- Export settings and import them from URL (e.g. store settings in git with code)
- (Auto?)-update imported settings
- Execute custom JS
Why Rex?
The name is inspired by the austrian tv show "Inspector Rex". The main character, a german shephard named Rex, is a police dog that helps find evidence and solve crimes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Rex).
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Credits
This extension was inspired by linkuha/ext-resh.