Highlighting chat comments #929
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As mentioned in issue #24256, I'd like to be able to highlight comments/messages in chat to make them more visible and easier to find later. Just like you can react/reply/edit comments (and pin them in labs), you should also be able to highlight them. This would essentially just be another formatting option, like bold and italics, and it would make it easier to find highlighted lines while scrolling through DMs and rooms. In addition, it would be nice to also have highlighted lines show in the scrollbar like search terms do in Chrome to make them easier to find later.
Note that this is different from pinning. For one, pinning requires opening the sidebar and going through those, whereas highlighting would allow lines to be found easily just by scrolling. Second, pinning isn't in order of the conversation but in order of pinning, so it would make it a bit harder to find something when you know roughly where in the conversation it is compared to highlighting. Third, you may want to highlight several lines or more but only pin the really important stuff. Finally, pinning doesn't show a "map" of where the comments are like highlighting with associated scroll bar markings would.
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