On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi > > Sometimes it is useful to highlight all occurrences of the search term, > e.g. when navigating to locations in the text where a certain term > occurs. Is this possible in LyX? I couldn't find anything in the > search dialog. > > I am only referring to highlighting on the screen, not the compiled > document. > > Is there something I have overlooked? > > Cheers, > > Rainer > This is indeed a useful function. However, there is another function that achieves similar results and in some ways is better.
It works like this: Once the Find function finds its first result, pressing a specified key combination takes you to the next result no matter if the Find dialog window is open or not--there is no need to constantly mess with the Find dialog or remove your fingers from the keyboard to re-open it or to click a button. To find the previous occurrence of the find-string, press another key combination. One way that this is superior to the highlight-all approach is that the screen is scrolled for you. In the highlight-all approach, scrolling to the next or previous find result can be difficult especially when the results are far apart. When this functionality is combined with the ability to pass selected text to the Find function with still another key combination (without the need to copy the selected text, open the Find dialog, paste the selected text, then click some more to search forward or backward), the searching process becomes unbelievably streamlined. This functionality has been a standardized feature in OS X programs from the beginning (going on 12 years) and might have been present in pre-OS X OS's from Apple (I can't recall for sure). Some will recall that I have discussed this before, so I hate to be redundant, but I believe this is a very useful approach (and not exclusive to the highlight-all approach) and is sorely missed by OS X users. And it can be implemented in such a way that the more laborious approach is available in its current form--that's the way OS X does it, with sort of the "long" way and the "power user" way both available. Jerry
