One of the nice things that vi(m) does is when you perform a search, all of the matches are pre-highlighted.
In IDEA, this might work nicely with CTRL-F3 (or even a regular search for that matter). But with CTRL-F3, you would first highlight the text you want to search for, then press CTRL-F3, at which time all of the matching text in the file gets highlighted with, say, a light blue color. It might even be nice to put blue lines in the right margin highlighting all of the match points. The cursor would then be placed on the first match which would be highlighted with the darker blue 'select' color. Each time you hit F3 (or CTRL-F3), you would jump to the next match, like you do now, and it changes from light blue to dark blue. The difference is that you can see ahead of time where all the matches will be. And sometimes you just want to get some idea of where and how frequently a variable is used. So by hitting CTRL-F3, you get all of the little blue lines on the side and that may tell you everything you need to know. cc _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
