Except, how do you unhighlight the usage when you are done? "Vollmer, Thomas - CannonSA" wrote:
> Something similar is already available: > "Highlight Usages in File" (Ctrl-Shift-F7). > It doesn't do all that you described, though. > What I would like to see for "Highlight Usages > in File" is "Jump to next/previous Usage". > HTH. > -Thomas > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Christopher Cobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:29 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Eap-list] Pre-highlight search matches > > > > > > 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 > > > > ************************************ > If this email is not intended for you, or you are not responsible for the > delivery of this message to the addressee, please note that this message may > contain ITT Privileged/Proprietary Information. In such a case, you may not > copy or deliver this message to anyone. You should destroy this message and > kindly notify the sender by reply email. Information contained in this > message that does not relate to the business of ITT is neither endorsed by > nor attributable to ITT. > ************************************ > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
