On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:34:03 +0200, Dominic Hopf dmaphy@googlemail.com wrote:
Am Freitag, den 18.04.2008, 16:46 +0200 schrieb Enrico Tröger:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:30:51 +0200, Harold Aling h.aling@home.nl wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:51:34 +0200, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:46:13 +0100, "Steve Horsley" steve.horsley@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steve,
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I have no idea how easy this would be to do, but I would like to suggest an option whereby when you do a search, all occurences are highlighted. The first occurence would be selected as usual, but all other occurences highlighted in yellow. For a working example of what I mean, try searching for text in gedit. I find the feature very
I actually didn't test it with gedit because I don't want to install all its Gnome dependencies just to test searching ;-).
But I'm pretty sure Geany already can what you are looking for. In the search dialog, click on the expander "Find All" and then click on "Mark" (see http://geany.uvena.de/manual/0.13/images/find_dialog.png for reference). This will highlight all matches, not exactly in yellow but in a nice green ;-).
It'll also be great if the search toolbar would support "highlight all matches"!
Patches are welcome. But this would again need another button or any other kind of GUI addition to make use of it.
I think it would be a good idea, to make the "hilight all matches" the default behaviour. If more than one matches are found, geany would hilight them too. This wouldn't need an additional element on the toolbar.
Highlight all matches using the incremental search could be annoying (and maybe even slow, not tested) because especially when typing the first letters of a search term it's likely to get many matches and then they get less. This would cause many highlights and while typing ahead these highlights are removed again, it could looks like flickering in some way. Anyway, I agree with Nick Mark/highlight matches should remain in the usual Find dialog and only there.
Regards, Enrico