[Geany] Feature request: Highlight all occurences

[Enrico Tröger]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:30:51 +0200, Harold Aling <h.aling at home.nl>
wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:51:34 +0200, Enrico Tröger
> <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:46:13 +0100, "Steve Horsley"
> > <steve.horsley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Steve,
> > 
> > most important first: this is a mailing list. In order to receive
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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.

Regards,
Enrico

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