Higlight Selected
A simple plugin to highlight all words matching your selection.

Screenshot


Updates

30/03/09 - fixed a crash error when the document opened isnt editable (cheers philipe)

04/05/09 - Big update by David (davgothic)
+ Added 4 plugin setting options:
+ Highlight Color (Choose a color for the highlight)
+ Highlight Whole Words (Choose whether to highlight whole words only or include partial text)
+ Match Case (Choose whether to match the case of the selection or not)
+ Add Line Marker (Display a line marker next to highlighted text)
+ No longer highlights white-space characters


Description
Notepad++ comes with a feature where if you double click a variable it will highlight all other instances of that variable in the open document. I wanted this feature in FD so i decided to write this plugin.
This plugin is very simple and borrows much of the code from the quick-find plugin.

Installation
+ Copy the DLL to your "C:\Program Files\FlashDevelop\Plugins" directory

Usage
+ Double click a variable or string to select it, note all other matching strings become highlighted.

DLL
http://gonegothic.com/files/flashdevelop/HighlightSelection/HighlightSelection.dll

Source
http://gonegothic.com/files/flashdevelop/HighlightSelection/HighlightSelection.zip

Super, thanks... It's good alternative for Color Highlighter plugin.

It would be great if some setting can be changeable:
for example
1. color of highlite
2. single/double click (by shortcuts)
3. match whole word or not (by shortcuts)
4. on/off plugin (by shortcuts)
... and remove selection

Also, check that the current document is "editable" - it throws an exception when the Startpage appears.

Very cool plugin indeed

Cheers for the comments guys.

I have written a quick fix for the crash thanks Philipe.

Thanks for the suggestions Kulkoff, given more time I think I would implement some of them, but for now this plugin will have to remain rather simple

Cheers,
Mike

Have to say I really like this plugin! Cheers!

Liked the plugin so much I decided to add a few features! Posting here with Mike's permission.

Screenshot


Updates
Added 4 plugin setting options:

Highlight Color (Choose a color for the highlight)
Highlight Whole Words (Choose whether to highlight whole words only or include partial text)
Match Case (Choose whether to match the case of the selection or not)
Add Line Marker (Display a line marker next to highlighted text)

No longer highlights white-space characters

Installation
+ Open FlashDevelop, Click Tools -> Application Files
+ Copy the DLL to the "Plugins" directory
+ Restart FlashDevelop

DLL
http://gonegothic.com/files/flashdevelo ... ection.dll

Source
http://gonegothic.com/files/flashdevelo ... ection.zip

Hope you like! Big thanks to Mike!

Since the plugin don't work lights modified lines.

Very nice work David! I have updated the first post to now link to your updated verison.

Im not sure what iNils means, but it definately works for me..

Sample bug

Great plug-in, how about adding the ability to use a keyboard shortcut? I'd also like to set the alpha for the hi-lighting ( or remove it completely ). I mean, if you choose a color, you'd pretty much want that color to be the highlighted one, not a semi-transparent version of it.

iNils, now I see what you mean. If you have "View Modified Lines" set to true you no longer see them with this plugin installed.

I'll have a look at a solution. For now you could go to the Highlight Selected options and set "Add Line Marker" to false, that will disable the line marking functionality but keep the text highlights and the modified lines highlight.

Hopefully this is helpful till a solution is found.

I know on the "Add Line Marker", but I'd like to use it and then. Can we save the state and then to recover it?

Can this plugin add feature for multiple editing ? I mean if I highlight some word, when I modify it, the changes reflected on all the other highlighted word too.

great tool! can't live without it now.

noticed something though:
Sometimes function variables start with a dollar sign (e.g. in TweenLite / TweenMax), and I started adapting this naming convention. Just now I noticed that the highlighter doesn't work on $variable.

Maybe something for the next update?

Many thanks

Just a thanks for writing, im a big notepad++ user and I love this feature