[Feature Request] Better Google Sheets Support

[Anonchilla5]

Hovering over text for a definition only seems to highlight when a given cell is actively being edited. Would it be possible to enable support to highlight the text in inactive cells while hovering the mouse over those as well? In my use case, this would allow me to keep a separate cell active for typing while highlighting the text in a separate, currently unselected cell.

[birtles]

That's a good idea. Unfortunately it could be a bit of work. Google Sheets is all rendered as a <canvas> meaning we can't pick up the text easily. Google Docs is rendered as a <canvas> too, but it provides an accessible canvas feature for extensions like 10ten to be able to find the position of text. As far as I know, Google Sheets doesn't provide that.

I think we'd have to write something using Apps Script instead which I haven't done before. If someone is interested in trying, however, I'd be very happy to help out.