Skip to content
PluginStats

Text Marker (Highlighter) installs statistics

By Ryuichi Inagaki (2 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Other

Select text in your code and mark all matches. The highlight colour is configurable

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 19, 2026

Text Marker (Highlighter) has 159,970 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.

It ranks #1784 of 2,501 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.

It is rated 4.7 out of 5 from 46 ratings.

PluginStats has 4 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 19, 2026.

Installs
159,970
Official API · Oct 19, 2026
7-day growth
—
Insufficient history
30-day growth
—
Insufficient history
90-day growth
—
Insufficient history
Rank
#1784
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 4.72 / 5 from 46 ratings

About Text Marker (Highlighter)

Text Marker (Highlighter)

Features

• Highlight/Unhighlight text from both command palette or right-click menu • Update existing highlight rules from the right-click menu • Jump to the next/previous location of the same highlighted pattern • Highlight text using a regular expression • Case sensitive/insensitive text matching • Matching is done depending on the current mode for case sensitivity. You can toggle the mode from the status bar. • Whole/Partial text matching • Matching is done depending on the current mode for whole match. You can toggle the mode from the status bar. • Highlighting colour is configurable • Save highlights that will be restored next time you open the editor

Highlight/Unhighlight text. Regular expression can also be used. It highlights your text as you type.

Switch matching mode. Case sensitive match, Whole match are available. From command palette, you can even change the matching mode after you specified a highlight.

You can update a highlight rule after you set it.

Request Features or Report Bugs

Feature requests and bug reports are very welcome: https://github.com/ryu1kn/vscode-text-marker/issues

A couple of requests from me when you raise an github issue.

• Requesting a feature: Please try to provide the context of why you want the feature. Such as, in what situation the feature could help you and how, or how the lack of the feature is causing an inconvenience to you. I can't think of introducing it until I understand how it helps you 🙂 • Reporting a bug: Please include environment information (OS name/version, the editor version). Also consider providing screenshots (or even videos) where appropriate. They are often very very helpful!

Commands

• Toggle Highlight (Command ID: textmarker.toggleHighlight)

Highlight selected text, if no text is selected, the word under cursor will be highlighted. Issueing this command on a highlight without selecting any text will remove the highlight. Available on right-click menu.

• Update Highlight (Command ID: textmarker.updateHighlight)

Update the existing highlight (Toggle case sensitivity, whole/partial match, pattern text). Available on right-click menu.

• Go to Next Same Highlight (Command ID: textmarker.goToNextHighlight)

Move the cursor to the next location of the same highlight. Highlight selection or the word under cursor first if the cursor is not on a highlight. Available on right-click menu.

• Go to Previous Same Highlight (Command ID: textmarker.goToPreviousHighlight)

Move the cursor to the previous location of the same highlight. Highlight selection or the word under cursor first if the cursor is not on a highlight. Available on right-click menu.

• Highlight Text Using Regex (Command ID: textmarker.highlightUsingRegex)

Highlight text that matches a given regular expression.

• Unhighlight Text (Command ID: textmarker.unhighlight)

Remove a highlight from the list of highlights.

• Clear All Highlights (Command ID: textmarker.clearAllHighlight)

Clear all highlights with one shot.

• Save All Highlights (Command ID: textmarker.saveAllHighlights)

Save all highlights that will be restored when opening an editor.

• Toggle Case Sensitivity (Command ID: textmarker.toggleCaseSensitivity)

Toggle the case sensitivity of a highlight.

• Toggle Mode for Case Sensitivity (Command ID: textmarker.toggleModeForCaseSensitivity)

Toggle mode for case sensitivity. Available on Status bar.

• Toggle Whole/Partial Match (Command ID: textmarker.toggleWholeMatch)

Toggle whole match and partial match.

• Toggle Mode for Whole/Partial Match (Command ID: textmarker.toggleModeForWholeMatch)

Toggle mode for whole match and partial match. Available on Status bar.

Extension Settings

• textmarker.highlightColors

List of colours to be used to highlight the selected text. The colours are used with respect to the order in the list. If it runs out of the colours, it uses the colour specified at textmarker.defaultHighlightColor.

• textmarker.defaultHighlightColor (default: "gray")

Once all the colours given in textmarker.highlightColors is used, texts are highlighted with this colour.

• textmarker.defaultHighlightOpacity (default: 0.7)

Opacity to be used when one is not given in the highlight colour. Opacity is also applied to the colours on the overview ruler. The value must be in the range 0.0 to 1.0, inclusive.

• textmarker.enableIgnoreCase (default: false)

Enable ignore case mode on startup

• textmarker.enableWholeMatch (default: false)

Enable whole match mode on startup

• textmarker.useHighlightColorOnRuler (default: true)

Use the same colour for both highlighting a text and showing the location on the ruler. If you have multiple highlights on the same line and their colours have opacity 1, you would only see one of those colours. You can specify a smaller opacity value so that the colours can be blended.

• textmarker.autoSelectDistinctiveTextColor (default: false)

Text colour will be chosen to be distinctive from the background highlight colour. This will hide the text colour given by syntax highlighting; if this is not desirable, set it false. • textmarker.hideStatusBarItems (default: false)

Hide status bar items. When set it true, the buttons to switch the modes of partial/whole match and case sensitive/insensitive match will not be displayed.

• textmarker.delayForRefreshingHighlight (default: 300)

Number of milliseconds to wait before refreshing the highlights on editor contents change. null for no refresh.

• textmarker.commandsOnContextMenu (default: 4 commands are visible. See them here)

Commands appear on the context menu. For historical reason, 4 commands are visible by default.

For example, if you:

• Do NOT want to see Update Highlight command (Command ID: textmarker.updateHighlight), which is on the menu by default • Want to see Clear All Highlights (Command ID: textmarker.clearAllHighlight), which is NOT on the menu by default

You can set this setting like this:…

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • highlight
  • mark
  • marker
  • match
  • search

Where Text Marker (Highlighter) sits in the listing

Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.

All VS Code Marketplace2,501 listings · 126 pages · page 90, #4 (overall #1784)
All VS Code Marketplace: every listing in installs order
PNG SVG
Other761 listings · 39 pages · page 28, #1 (overall #541)
Other: every listing in installs order
PNG SVG

Charts

Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark

Adoption over time

Text Marker (Highlighter) installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 159,970 installs as of Oct 19, 2026.Text Marker (Highlighter)Installs on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days159,970installs159.9K159.9K159.9K159.9K160K160K160KJul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Text Marker (Highlighter) installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 159,970 installs as of Oct 19, 2026.
PNG SVG

7/30/90-day growth

Text Marker (Highlighter) installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.Text Marker (Highlighter)Installs growth on VS Code Marketplace159,970installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 19, 2026pluginstats.com
Text Marker (Highlighter) installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.
PNG SVG

Ranking history

Text Marker (Highlighter) VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #1784 (by installs).Text Marker (Highlighter)VS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#1784current rank#1782#1783#1784#1785#1786Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct 19, 2026pluginstats.com
Text Marker (Highlighter) VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #1784 (by installs).
PNG SVG

Ratings over time

Text Marker (Highlighter) ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 46 ratings as of Oct 19, 2026.Text Marker (Highlighter)Ratings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days46ratings40424446485052Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Text Marker (Highlighter) ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 46 ratings as of Oct 19, 2026.
PNG SVG

Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

Recent observations

Full history (4)
Recent installs observations for Text Marker (Highlighter)
Date (UTC)InstallsChange vs. previous
159,970+18
159,952+20
159,932+13
159,919—

Similar VS Code Marketplace Other plugins

Data source

Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.

Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ryu1kn.text-marker. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.