How to highlight / change background color of the code in the editor?

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When you use "find" functionality in the IDE, the text that you look for is highlighted / changes the background (for example, when you search for "cow", then all occurrences of the word "cow" in code will change the background color). How to highlight some code / change the background color using a plugin?

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Sorry for delay. If this highlighting is "persistent" (always on), you could use Annotator https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/syntax-highlighting-and-error-highlighting.html#annotator

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Please explain your exact use case

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The use case is as follows. My plugin generates some code and I would like to highlight the generated code so that the user can differentiate the code that existed there and the code that has been generated by the plugin.

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If there's no good way to do that or if you don't have any suggestions, could you please confirm that you don't have any suggestions (so that I know that there are no suggestions)?

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