Highligh all similar word in Document to selection

[HHT]

Hi,
I need to highlight/un-highlight all words in the document similar to
current selection. Does scintilla support that?
If it supports I will appreciate pointer to right direction. Docs as
well as google have been of no help to me this time but then I may be
missing something right there :)
TIA,
Stefano

[Nicholai Benalal]

Hi,

I don't think there's any direct support for this in scintilla so you would have to implement it yourself in the editor. That's what we do in the Scribble editor for MorphOS at least.

Best,

Nicholai

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[tenaja]

I just went through this recently. There are two Lua examples that I found helpful; search for markOccurrences.lua and highlighting_identical_text.lua .

These are the basic steps:

• Get the selected text.
• Search for an occurance. It is up to you to decide screen-view or full doc. Delays may be noticeable with long docs, if you do the whole thing. Use RegEx if you need "similar" words, and not exact matches.
• Mark the find with an Indicator, using SCI_INDICATORFILLRANGE. Rinse and Repeat.
• To unmark them, use SCI_INDICATORCLEARRANGE

Have fun!

[Philippe Lhoste]

SciTE can do that now. The property enabling that is highlight.current.word
You can locate how it is done by searching the source of SciTE around this property...

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[HHT]

Thank you all for your help.
I will go thru your suggestions and work out a solution!