Highlight the selected word feature

[manualph]

I use version version:8.0.2 . From the below thread , I came to know that textpad doesn't have the feature by which a selected word is highlighted in a particular colour throughout the document. Notepad++ has this basic and very useful feature and I think it is called 'Smart Highlighting' in Notepad++ .

It would have been very helpful if textpad developers added this functionality in textpad too.


http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=13067
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1230 ... in-eclipse

[Nial]

You can't do that but you can do smoething similar as discussed here.

https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

If you highlight a word and hit the grep tool it throws up hyperlinks
to every instance in the file (listing each line in the Tool Output).

Not exactly what you're looking for but it stops you having to manually
scroll up and down looking for highlighted instances.

Nial

[AmigoJack]

hyperlinks to every instance in the file (listing each line in the Tool Output)

But then again you can use "Find In Files" already, since each line in the search results also jumps to the appropriate file and line upon doubleclick.

As for the overall feature: no, not needed that much. I prefer TextPad for being able to open i.e. 3 GiB files which Notepad++ can't, and most likely using a "highlight current word everywhere" feature there wouldn't be that easy to implement (whereas in tiny files it's no big problem to just index every word).

[ak47wong]

As a workaround of sorts, you can search for the word in question and in the Find dialog click Mark All. This will place a bookmark on each line that contains the word you're interested. You can use the commands in the Search menu to move between bookmarks.