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Highlight all matches for various text [message #524579] Thu, 01 April 2010 09:51 Go to next message
Maxim Veksler is currently offline Maxim Veksler
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Hello,

How can I enable an arbitrary text highlighting in Eclipse IDE?

To explain what I mean go to

1. Help > Help Contents
2. Hit ctrl+f
3. Make sure "Highlight all matches" is checked
4. enter the text "he"

You will notice that all text occurrence contains "he" will be highlighted.


I want the same functionality for the main Editor window.

I'm not speaking about "Search" highlighting because that is a vary long and contains many user clicks way to do such a simple and IMHO very common task.


p.s. I'm not sure if this plugin http://colorer.sourceforge.net/eclipsecolorer/ could provide the described feature.


Thanks for the help,
Maxim.

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Re: Highlight all matches for various text [message #524679 is a reply to message #524579] Thu, 01 April 2010 14:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Brian de Alwis is currently offline Brian de Alwis
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Maxim Veksler wrote:
> How can I enable an arbitrary text highlighting in Eclipse IDE?

Try enabling "Mark Occurrences" (Control-Alt-O or from the toolbar) and then
use the incremental search: Control-J and then start typing. This highlights
all occurrences in my testing.

Brian.

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Re: Highlight all matches for various text [message #525762 is a reply to message #524679] Wed, 07 April 2010 13:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Maxim Veksler is currently offline Maxim Veksler
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Brian de Alwis wrote on Thu, 01 April 2010 14:38
Maxim Veksler wrote:
> How can I enable an arbitrary text highlighting in Eclipse IDE?

Try enabling "Mark Occurrences" (Control-Alt-O or from the toolbar) and then
use the incremental search: Control-J and then start typing. This highlights
all occurrences in my testing.

Brian.


Hi Brian,

It did not work for me. Ctrl + J indeed does increment search but only the first result gets highlighted.

I'm looking for something like Chrome (Chromium) search which is IMHO perfect implementation for quick text search.


Any ideas?

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Re: Highlight all matches for various text [message #526667 is a reply to message #524579] Mon, 12 April 2010 10:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Georgi Apostolov is currently offline Georgi Apostolov
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I have problem with highlight too. I want to see where start and end my bracelets

Like this: http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/xspy/eclipse-bracers. jpg

I searched all day, no results Sad

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Re: Highlight all matches for various text [message #526668 is a reply to message #526667] Mon, 12 April 2010 10:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Maxim Veksler is currently offline Maxim Veksler
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Georgi Apostolov wrote on Mon, 12 April 2010 10:34
I have problem with highlight too. I want to see where start and end my bracelets

Like this: http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/xspy/eclipse-bracers. jpg

I searched all day, no results Sad


Indeed notepad++ highlighting is marvelous. It has the feature I am after (highlight all occurrences of the word on mouse double click) plus the mentioned above feature and a plethora of other very much helpful text editor tweaks.

Eclipse should adopt this editor highlighting logic into it's own editor. It would make many people happy.

Perhaps this deserves a feature request in Bugzilla ?

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Re: Highlight all matches for various text [message #528483 is a reply to message #526668] Tue, 20 April 2010 12:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eric Rizzo is currently offline Eric Rizzo
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On 4/12/10 10:41 AM, Maxim Veksler wrote:
> Georgi Apostolov wrote on Mon, 12 April 2010 10:34
>> I have problem with highlight too. I want to see where start and end
>> my bracelets
>>
>> Like this:
>> http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/xspy/eclipse-bracers jpg
>>
>> I searched all day, no results :(
>
>
> Indeed notepad++ highlighting is marvelous. It has the feature I am
> after (highlight all occurrences of the word on mouse double click) plus
> the mentioned above feature and a plethora of other very much helpful
> text editor tweaks.
>
> Eclipse should adopt this editor highlighting logic into it's own
> editor. It would make many people happy.
>
> Perhaps this deserves a feature request in Bugzilla ?

Eclipse already does this for other programming languages; if that
feature is not available in the PHP editor, I do suggest you check
Bugzilla; there is most likely a feature request for it already. Keep in
mind that this is open source and just having a request for a feature
does not magically make it appear in the next release; materializing
features takes contribution from the community.

Eric

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Re: Highlight all matches for various text [message #549583 is a reply to message #524579] Tue, 27 July 2010 05:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
No real name is currently offline No real name
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Ctrl + shift + a finds 'occurances in a file' that highlights all occurances of the selected text as you describe.

Through the GUI its on the 'source' menu.

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Re: Highlight all matches for various text [message #549736 is a reply to message #549583] Tue, 27 July 2010 14:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Maxim Veksler is currently offline Maxim Veksler
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What version of eclipse are you using? I don't see such option in 3.6 EE version (Java Perspective).

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Re: Highlight all matches for various text [message #630905 is a reply to message #524579] Tue, 05 October 2010 10:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
No real name is currently offline No real name
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I have found this plugin for text highlighting
http://code.google.com/p/eclipse-glance/

It works like Notepad++ on doubleclick word highlighting after pressing Ctrl+Alt+F in any (!) Eclipse editor

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Re: Highlight all matches for various text [message #631372 is a reply to message #630905] Thu, 07 October 2010 06:30 Go to previous message
Maxim Veksler is currently offline Maxim Veksler
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No Real Name wrote on Tue, 05 October 2010 10:39
I have found this plugin for text highlighting
http://code.google.com/p/eclipse-glance/

It works like Notepad++ on doubleclick word highlighting after pressing Ctrl+Alt+F in any (!) Eclipse editor



THANK YOU.

If this was stackoverflow here you would get an up vote + selected answer + A thank you very much comment Smile from me.

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