[ZeroBrane Studio] Re: Feature Request: Highlight Current Word
- From: Ciprian Tomoiaga <ciprian.tomoiaga@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: zerobrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:38:21 +0200
Hi,
Sorry to appear out of nowhere, but this is a feature I would also like to
see. It's easy to track a variable or function or whatever.
May I add that Sublime also does it quite nicely: http://imgur.com/lC8poXy
but I believe this is beyond the capabilities of underlying SciTE.
Many thanks for continuous great work!
Best regards,
Ciprian
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Ciprian *Tom*oiaga
On 31 March 2015 at 19:09, Derek Bailey <dbaileychess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> There may be several options to extend this functionality, but I'd
>> like to figure out what's not sufficient (or what you don't like)
>> about the current one. For example, you mentioned that you don't want
>> renaming, but it doesn't get in a way much as the selection will
>> disappear when you move the caret anyway.
>
>
> The three editors I use throughout the day (Visual Studios, Eclipse,
> Notepad++) all have a very similar reference highlighting (see screen
> captures: http://imgur.com/a/OAQhy). All of them just highlight the word
> and there is no editing capabilities. The terms are not multiselected,
> since you cannot do anything with them (which I sort of like), only the
> original term you clicked on is selected. As the original poster said, this
> feature is more for being able to look at a block of code and see how a
> particular variable is being used (or not use).
>
>
>> Another option would be to use indicators, which
>> are more permanent, but then it's not obvious when to clear them (need
>> another shortcut?).
>
>
> Both VS and Notepad++ remove the highlight as soon as you single mouse
> click on anything else. Eclipse leaves the highlighting until you select
> another term to highlight.
>
> I tried your plugin you put on gist, and it works, but I agree with you
> the default Ctrl-DClick works better.
>
>
> Take Care,
>
> Derek
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Paul K <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Derek,
>>
>> > I would like to revive this feature request. It would be nice to have a
>> feature where you double click a word and it highlights all references in
>> the current editor.
>>
>> Since the discussion is more than 2 years old, some of the features
>> that address the requirements in the original request have already
>> been implemented. For example, Ctrl-DClick will select instances of a
>> variable in a scope-aware way. There is also RightClick | Rename All
>> Instances, which does this for arbitrary text, but also allows the
>> editing of the text.
>>
>> > I know you can sort of do it with the (cmd/ctrl)-double-click to rename
>> all references, but I think it would be useful to do it without the
>> renaming aspect.
>>
>> There may be several options to extend this functionality, but I'd
>> like to figure out what's not sufficient (or what you don't like)
>> about the current one. For example, you mentioned that you don't want
>> renaming, but it doesn't get in a way much as the selection will
>> disappear when you move the caret anyway.
>>
>> Also, it's not quite clear how exactly to highlight the matches. The
>> simplest way is to use multiple selection, which will disappear when
>> you move the caret. Another option would be to use indicators, which
>> are more permanent, but then it's not obvious when to clear them (need
>> another shortcut?).
>>
>> What I may be able to do is to allow you to select a word, which would
>> trigger search of that word in the current document. I'll probably
>> make it available as a plugin to see how useful it is. Here is the
>> quick pass at that plugin
>> (https://gist.github.com/pkulchenko/70424f7660fb4465ae43); let me know
>> if that works for you. Note that it still does multiple selection; you
>> can disable cursor blinking with editor:SetAdditionalCaretsBlink(0)
>> and disable multi-cursor editing with
>> editor:SetAdditionalSelectionTyping(0).
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>
>
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