Superier Highlighter

Highlight exactly what you select in Obsidian Reading View. Matches the selected text together with the text before and after it, then saves native ==🔴text== highlights.

Author: owjxyz

KOREAN

Install

Close Obsidian, open a terminal in your vault folder, and run:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owjxyz/Obsidian-Superier-Highlighter/main/install.py | python3 -

• An optional vault path can be added after python3 -.
• Requires Python 3.9+. Resolves the latest stable release on every run and verifies checksums for all three release files.
• Backs up changed files, preserves other settings, and migrates Reader Highlighter Tags plugin settings. The old plugin is disabled; its files stay in place.
• Does not add or change shortcuts. Apply personal shortcuts through Obsidian Vault Init.
• Existing Superier Highlighter settings are preserved.
• Updates happen when you run the script; it does not install a background updater. Preview releases are excluded. If release lookup or verification fails, the vault stays unchanged.

Manual installation: download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release, place them in .obsidian/plugins/superier-highlighter/, then enable Superier Highlighter. Community-directory installation becomes available after Obsidian approves the submission.

Shortcuts

Assign your preferred keys to colour and removal commands in Settings → Hotkeys → Superier Highlighter. Select text in Reading View and press the assigned shortcut.

Repeat a highlight shortcut: if an existing highlight contains the selection, its entire highlight and colour marker are removed. Otherwise the shortcut highlights the selection. This also works per line or cell in a multi-line selection.

Toolbar colour buttons recolour only the selected part. The remove button and removal command erase only the selected part, keeping surrounding highlights intact.

Selection behaviour

• Partial first/last lines and table cells remain partial. Text outside the selection keeps its colour.
• Surrounding text, repeated-paragraph order, and visible occurrence counts must agree. Ambiguous or stale selections leave the note unchanged.
• A selection spanning an embedded note is refused. Select inside one note at a time.
• Partial link labels and partial inline-code spans are refused rather than expanded. Select their complete visible text.
• Unrecognized rendered syntax may be refused. Smart paragraph selection deliberately selects a full block when enabled; it is off by default.

Tags, footnote annotations, highlight navigation, exports, and reading progress are retained from the original plugin.

Develop

Requires Node.js and Python:

npm ci
npm test
npm run typecheck
npm run build
python3 test_install.py

Credits

Derived from Reader Highlighter Tags by DuckTapeKiller, under the MIT license. Superier Highlighter is an independent fork maintained by owjxyz.