Feature request: keep highlight annotation active until other click

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
desktop

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The issue names no source file, test, or repository entry point; begin by locating the highlight annotation action in xreader and checking how .config/xreader/accels is handled. Done means highlighting remains active across successive highlights, deactivates when the button is toggled again, and the requested keyboard-shortcut behavior is addressed.

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Description

When I read a paper, I like to highlight the most important things. It is unproductive to have to click in the highlight annotation every time you need to highlight something. It would be great to keep this button press after you finish highlighting, of couse it would deactivate when you click the button other time.

I've search a lot in the internet in the last few months looking for some similar functionality. Sorry if that's not the place to ask, but... Is there a highlight keyboard shortcut? Or a way to create that (I know there is a file named accels in .config/xreader/ where you can customized keyboard shortcuts)? That could save me some time while requested feature is being implementing.

Thanks for your time, reading and answering, and sorry for my english, I'm not a native speaker.

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