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coattail

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View text with higlights and tags in separate window pane

Dear Arch users,

this would be my first post on Arch forums so please bear with me.

I am searching for application that could manipulate .txt .md .html files where there is possibility, inbuilt or extended through addon, of highlighting text and when reviewing those files displaying all highlights (bookmarks, underlining etc  in a separate pane where there is a option to click on particular highlight, bookmark etc and instantly focusing on that part of text.
Wasn't lazy, looked through multiple applications but was primarily focused on gaining before mentioned feature through vim, emacs or some other ubiquitous program which isn't electron based or bloatfull.

All the best.

ewaller

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Re: View text with higlights and tags in separate window pane

Chomium ?   Firefox?

Use file://path/to/your/file to open your file.  F12 to open the developer tools.  Pick the elements tab.

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seth

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Re: View text with higlights and tags in separate window pane

could manipulate .txt .md .html files … which isn't electron based or bloatfull

Afaiu OP's looking for an editor that can bookmark lines (fairly common) and then access those bookmarks from a reference pane.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sqriptor-git can of course keep bookmarks but does not have some index access list.

If you don't find anything else that makes you happy and overall like sqriptor, ping back and figure whether you're more looking for some side pane you'll operate w/ a mouse or some fzf/rofi/dmenu-style access where you'd enter a filter to match-find the indexed line and select that via keyboard/mouse.
Sounds interesting enough and I more or less already know how I'd integrate the fzdrofi-style thing…

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