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Upon selecting a word, highlight all occurrences of the same word in the current file. Many editors / IDEs already do this. It's a feature I have grown accoustomed, and I find it very difficult to work without.
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Oktay Acikalin
So without pressing another key combo?
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adzenith
Here's a plugin:
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
class WordHighlightListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
def on_selection_modified(self,view):
regions = []
for sel in view.sel():
if len(sel):
regions += view.find_all(view.substr(sel))
view.add_regions("WordHighlight", regions, "comment", 0)
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
class WordHighlightListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
def on_selection_modified(self,view):
regions = []
for sel in view.sel():
if len(sel):
regions += view.find_all(view.substr(sel))
view.add_regions("WordHighlight", regions, "comment", 0)
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adzenith
Whoops, that broke the formatting. Let me upload it real fast.
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adzenith
Https://github.com/adzenith/Sublime-plugins/raw/master/word_highlight.py
Let me know if you've got any comments or suggestions. :)
Let me know if you've got any comments or suggestions. :)
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Oktay Acikalin
Nice work!
Perhaps only highlight after 3 or more chars have been selected? And also make this customizable. I fear that selecting a single letter in a large file (>80MB) might ddos sublime :). And selecting a single letter is always happening when starting a selection via the cursor/arrow keys...
Also whitespaces should be stripped - at least I don't really see sense in selecting a massive amount of indents :).
Perhaps only highlight after 3 or more chars have been selected? And also make this customizable. I fear that selecting a single letter in a large file (>80MB) might ddos sublime :). And selecting a single letter is always happening when starting a selection via the cursor/arrow keys...
Also whitespaces should be stripped - at least I don't really see sense in selecting a massive amount of indents :).
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adzenith
I've changed it so it strip()s and checks the selection length, but it turns out that re.escape is the most worthless function in the world... I need to find another way to escape the strings before I push it to github. Just a moment...
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adzenith
Pushed. The number of characters a selection needs to be (>2) isn't a user pref, because I was lazy or whatever, but it's there. I also use sublime.LITERAL instead of re.escape—I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I didn't know that flag existed.
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Oktay Acikalin
Uhm... and strip doesn't work with LITERAL too?
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adzenith
I'm not sure I understand the question? Maybe it's because I didn't add the strip change before I committed and pushed...
Regardless, strip is now actually actually in there, and I also changed it so it only searches when you've got an entire word selected rather than when you've got a certain number of characters selected.
Regardless, strip is now actually actually in there, and I also changed it so it only searches when you've got an entire word selected rather than when you've got a certain number of characters selected.
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Oktay Acikalin
Hmmm... view.word(sel) feels much better. Also you don't need the strip anymore, it seems.
As it works now it feels right to me. Thanks!
Update: Found a small bug :). When having a word selected and clicking into an empty line, the regions won't be removed. I've added 'view.erase_regions("WordHighlight")' before 'view.add_regions(…)' to fix this.
Update 2: Added ' and not sel.empty()' at the end of the if clause to prevent regex errors on empty selections.
As it works now it feels right to me. Thanks!
Update: Found a small bug :). When having a word selected and clicking into an empty line, the regions won't be removed. I've added 'view.erase_regions("WordHighlight")' before 'view.add_regions(…)' to fix this.
Update 2: Added ' and not sel.empty()' at the end of the if clause to prevent regex errors on empty selections.
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adzenith
I think strip is still needed, because if you have a line that's only whitespace, then selecting that whole line (without the newline) will pass the len(sel) == len(view.word(sel)) check.
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Oktay Acikalin
What about this?
regions = []
for sel in view.sel():
#If we directly compare sel and view.word(sel), then in compares their
#a and b values rather than their begin() and end() values. This means
#that a leftward selection (with a > b) will never match the view.word()
#of itself.
#As a workaround, we compare the lengths instead.
if len(sel) == len(view.word(sel)):
sel = view.substr(sel).strip()
if len(sel):
regions += view.find_all(sel, sublime.LITERAL)
view.add_regions("WordHighlight", regions, color_scope_name, draw_outlined)
regions = []
for sel in view.sel():
#If we directly compare sel and view.word(sel), then in compares their
#a and b values rather than their begin() and end() values. This means
#that a leftward selection (with a > b) will never match the view.word()
#of itself.
#As a workaround, we compare the lengths instead.
if len(sel) == len(view.word(sel)):
sel = view.substr(sel).strip()
if len(sel):
regions += view.find_all(sel, sublime.LITERAL)
view.add_regions("WordHighlight", regions, color_scope_name, draw_outlined)
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adzenith
This is to avoid 0-length searches? I just pushed a change that does that... :P
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Gavin Rehkemper
Can you add an option to your plugin that highlights the word without having to select characters, ie the word that the cursor is currently on (delimited by the standard word delimiters defined in the preferences)?
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Centigonal The Circular
Thank you for this! It is wonderful!
One gripe, though: If I select a variable named foo, then it will also highlight the first half of variables named foobar. Is there any way to limit highlighting to full, complete names and not parts?
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Centigonal The Circular
Wow. Thank you greatly!
Also, looking at the code:
What a slick solution! I wouldn't have thought of that! (Mind you, I'm no good with regexes, but still!)
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vtrs
Is it still available? The github link to word_highlight.py doesn't seem to work.
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Gavin Rehkemper
One version of the archived code is available at my site: http://www.gavinr.com/2011/03/28/sublime-text-2-highlight-all-instances-of-words/
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Gëzim H
Could someone create a version for ST 2, pretty please, otherwise, I'm loving this editor!
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adzenith
The only version of my plugin that exists is for ST2:
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Flake
Could anyone, please, tell me how to install it. I tried and looked in relate sites for hours......
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adzenith
Download the zip from https://github.com/SublimeText/WordHighlight/zipball/master and unzip it into your packages directory.
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Allan H.
I really like this plugin. Only problem that comes to mind, is that the highlights (I use boxed highlights) only appears/disappers in the sidebar when i scroll in the document/window.
I use OS X Lion.
I use OS X Lion.
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chaiguy
Great work adzenith! This should totally be incorporated into Sublime.
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James Brooks
This does happen now, since 2181 via the match_selection option.
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chaiguy
Yes the latest build has this built in. I still prefer adzenith's plugin though, because it allows you to highlight other occurrences of the word that has the caret in it, without having to select it first, and I find that very handy.
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Nui Gurumi
Wouldn't it be nice if it supported several simultaneous highlights of different colors with some sort of navigation between them? For example, there's as highlight-mode plugin for emacs, where you can press a combo (say, Ctrl-F3) which highlights the word under the cursor with green, then you can move the cursor onto another word (the previous one is still highlighted with green), press Ctrl-F3 again, and the second word is highlighted in pink (the previous one is still highlighted in green), and so on and so forth. Furthermore, if you then put the cursor on a highlighted word and press F3, it will navigate to the next occurrence of the word highlighted with that color, and Alt-F3 navigates to the previous occurrence. I find that immensely convenient for analyzing source code...
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