selection should highlight all occurences of the text

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kevinHealy
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selection should highlight all occurences of the text

Post by kevinHealy »

Suppose that you are looking at a file of code. It is invaluable to be able to quickly select a block of text (e.g. a variable name) and see all occurrences of that text be highlighted. This can allow you to, say, easily see all the lines of code which are affected by a variable.

Notepad++ has had this feature since forever. You simply double click on a work, and then it auto highlights all occurrences. Super slick.

IntelliJ does it too when you are searching for text.

I desperately need this feature in TextPad. (Or, is the functionality there but I have overlooked how to trigger it?)
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