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You can do that with module tags and specific colored output defined for these tags.

At the root of your modulepath, add a .modulerc file to define tags on your important modules:

$ cat /path/to/modulefiles/.modulerc 
#%Module
module-tag important foo

In this above example, the important tag is set on all foo modules:

$ module av
---------------- /path/to/modulefiles ----------------
bar/1  bar/2  foo/1 <important>  foo/2 <important>  

Key:
modulepath  <module-tag>

Instead of displaying the tag name along the module name, you can define a graphic rendition that represents tag over the module name. This definition should be added to the colors configuration with the syntax tagname=graphic_rendition. For instance to represent important tag with bold character:

$ module config colors +important=1

If use do not yet use Modules version 5.3, you should set the whole existing colors value and append :important=1 at the end of it.

Once set, foo/1.0 and foo/2.0 will be represented with bold font on module avail output.

Instead of bold font, you can define other graphic rendition like font color or background color. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#SGR_(Select_Graphic_Rendition)_parameters

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