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I remember in the past, we can double click the "highlighting icon" and make it a highlighting mode, so whatever we select in the PDF document, it'd be highlighted permanently. Select something again, and it is again highlighted permanently. (highlighted as if it is marked by a highlighter).

But now in Mojave, it doesn't seem to have this mode? We have to select something and move the mouse to click that highlighting icon, and select some text, and move the mouse to click that highlighting icon again?

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  • iBooks has this on mojave, but PDFs anyway go to preview. You can set up a shortcut for highlighting though to hit after selection.
    – anki
    Commented Dec 21, 2019 at 9:16

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This behaviour still works for me in Mojave: Preview's Toolbar has a highlight icon. When active (the lighter colour seen in the image below), then you can highlight text in the way you describe.

The behaviour you're seeing may be what happens when the highlight icon is not active (the same shade as the other icons).

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  • hm, I can't get it to work by double clicking it, so I tried click and hold, and it worked... and in fact it is just single click... so single click on it and it will work. Double clicking won't.
    – nonopolarity
    Commented Dec 21, 2019 at 9:58
  • If I select a colour from the submenu, then it remains selected.
    – benwiggy
    Commented Dec 21, 2019 at 10:01

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