Highlight all variable occurences in IDE

Kukulkan · Post by **Kukulkan** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:09 pm

In many other editors, all variables like the one the cursor currently is on, are highlighted. This helps to find all places where this variable is used.

The orange arrow shows the cursor over the $c variable (yes, it is PHP). The other occurences of this variable are highlighted using a light yellow background. This is very helpful if you like to refactor or if you are searching bugs.

BTW, this is PhpED from Nusphere (http://www.nusphere.com/products/phped.htm).

Kukulkan

MachineCode · Post by **MachineCode** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:15 pm

Post by **Kiffi** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:26 pm

That would be very useful!

Greetings ... Kiffi

nco2k · Post by **nco2k** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 4:18 pm

i agree, this is a killer feature.

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... =3&t=41842

c ya,
nco2k

Blood · Post by **Blood** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 1:38 pm

It should be an option.

c4s · Post by **c4s** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 1:58 pm

I like this feature very much in Notepad++, although it could be improved to (optionally) not highlight in comments, strings etc.

Shield · Post by **Shield** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 3:50 pm

Blood wrote:It should be an option.

Definitely. It's actually one of the first "features" I disable in other editors because
it annoys me and doesn't have any purpose for me whatsoever.

Blood · Post by **Blood** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 10:01 pm

Shield wrote:
Blood wrote:It should be an option.
Definitely. It's actually one of the first "features" I disable in other editors because
it annoys me and doesn't have any purpose for me whatsoever.

Me too.

Kukulkan · Post by **Kukulkan** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:48 am

nco2k wrote:i agree, this is a killer feature.

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... =3&t=41842

c ya,
nco2k

Oh, I missed this. Sorry. But now it is mentioned twice

Surely, this must be an option that can get switched on and off.

Kukulkan

Tenaja · Post by **Tenaja** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:35 pm

+1 for adding this feature. It is one of the big reasons I use Notepad++.

Didelphodon · Post by **Didelphodon** » Wed May 16, 2012 1:16 pm

Didelphodon · Post by **Didelphodon** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:30 am

actually this feature would perfectly work together with another feature: a birds eye view (on the right to the vertical scrollbar) which shows you all occurrences in the source. Would also be cool for ctrl-f.

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