Once you’ve developed effective Highlight Sets, consider sharing them with the community. Post your .hls files on:
For DevOps engineers working with containers and orchestration:
Instantly separate successful web requests from server failures. \b2[0-9]2\b (Green text) Client Errors (4xx): \b4[0-9]2\b (Orange text)
: You can assign a specific Highlight Set to a session permanently by navigating to the Session Properties > Appearance category.
: You don't have to start from zero. The Xshell community actively shares its configurations. For example, a popular technique involves adapting the sophisticated highlighting schemes from MobaXterm for use within Xshell. By finding a shared configuration, you can instantly gain a professional-grade set of highlighting rules for a wide variety of programming languages and log file formats.
Xshell stores its configuration files, including highlight sets, in the user profile directory. Navigate to Tools > Highlight Sets . Select your custom set and click . Save the file as a .json configuration package.
Stick to industry-standard color associations. Red always means stop/error, yellow means caution/warning, and green means go/success. Swapping these conventions confuses muscle memory during high-pressure outages. Exporting and Sharing Highlight Sets
Alternatively, you can use the button on the standard toolbar for quicker access.
