Agree this would be good, 3 steps to highlight text really interrupts the flow of reading. Even if you could pre-activate the highlighter to apply to any text selected that would be good. But keyboard shortcuts are ideal.
It's also not clear how to remove highlighting - ctrl-z doesn't work, there's no undo in the menu, no remove uption in the highlight menu and repeating the highlight selection just layers more colour on top.
Thanks for your time and consideration.