Mark occurences

[bob]

Hello Robert,

I would like to know if there's a way to mark occurences for all words (functions too) ?

In notepad++, when you select a word by clic, all the same occurences appears with a color. It's very pratice for searching words rapidly...

Is it possible to do that ?

THANKS

[robert]

Howdy bob,

Mark Occurrences currently doesn't do functions or methods, only identifiers. If you'd like it to work on more token types, or be configurable, please open a Feature Request here, so it's tracked:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/rsynta ... ea/support

Thanks!

[Christian]

Hello Guys ..

Sorry, but what do I have to do if I want my RSTA to display all occurences of the selected text when selecting a keyword or s.th. like this?
I tried to solve this by adding Listeners to the RSTA, this worked well until I tried to select the text backwards and I failed to add my own "mark-all ...". So if saw that the RSTA still supports such a functionality but I failed again. I can do whatever I want - there is no text marked.

Do I have to add the keywords first? I called

this.textArea.setMarkOccurrences(true);
this.textArea.setMarkOccurrencesColor(Color.RED);

but it doesn't work .. Thanks for trying to understand me and my English

[Guest]

Ok, I did it by my own with some Listeners ...

But I'm still interested if the RSTA does still support such a functionality and how to "install" it ..

Thanks.

[Christian]

So now I saw this thing working ..

Thanks

I think it doesn't work in all syntax schemes, I saw it today as I tested one of my own syntax schemes.

[robert]

Sorry Christian, I'm a little confused on what you're trying to accomplish. I think I'd have to see an example of what you're trying to do to give you a good response. Even though you say you have it working now, can you provide an example of what you're doing? Or if your code snippet is simple enough, you can post it here or send it to me.

Thanks

[Christian]

No problem. I just wanted to implement a feature as you can see it in eclipse selecting a text and the text is highlighted wherever it is written in the field.

I just added a KeyListener for reacting on selections via keyboard and a MouseListener to react on selections made per mouse. If an event occures I call the following code:

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if(this.markAllOccurences) {
      final int start = this.textArea.getSelectionStart();
      final int ende = this.textArea.getSelectionEnd();
      final int carPos = this.textArea.getCaretPosition();
      final String text = this.textArea.getSelectedText();
      if(text != null && text.length() > 0) {
        if(this.textArea.markAll(text, true, false, false) == 1) {
          this.textArea.clearMarkAllHighlights();
        }
        if(carPos == ende) {
          this.textArea.setSelectionStart(start);
          this.textArea.setSelectionEnd(ende);
        } else { //for selection via keyboard press shift + arrow left
          this.textArea.setSelectionStart(ende);
          this.textArea.setSelectionEnd(start);
          this.textArea.moveCaretPosition(start);
        }
      } else {
        this.textArea.clearMarkAllHighlights();
      }
    }


And it works. Then I saw that the RSTA has a method setMarkOccurrences(boolean). I thought it was what I wanted to have but now I think I've found out, that this just highlights Token when the caret is on a special position. I'm not sure, whether to use this feature from RSTA because it seems not to work in some languages.

I hope now it is clear what I wanted

[robert]

I believe the built-in "mark occurrences" support will only mark occurrences for plain identifiers (plain black tokens in the default color scheme) and variables. It marks all matching tokens in the editor after a short delay. This is like the "Mark Occurrences" feature of the Eclipse Java editor.