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Smart Highlight

Smart Highlight selects all occurrences of current word (variable) in surrounding text. To activate it you can use main menu item, shortcut (can be defined) or Ctrl + left mouse Click on word. In addition to simple search it has some smart logic:

  • it searches only in current syntax (language)
  • it take into account context (style of text where click was done). If click is done in comments - only comments will be searched, if in normal text comments will be skipped.
  • it take into account case sensitivity of the language
  • results are shown on Overview Bar.

Additional Smart Highlighting styles makes it possible to have multi style permanent smart highlighting displayed in code in same time. This is added in addition to automatic, not permanent smart highlight.

Additional Smart Highlighting Styles in HippoEDIT

You can enable the feature in Options->Code Completion.