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ProgerXP / Notepad2e

Word highlighting, simultaneous editing, split views, math evaluation, un/grep, comment reformatting, UAC elevation, complete regexps (PCRE), Lua lexers, DPI awareness and more (XP+)
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Mark Occurences #246

Closed ghost closed 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

With these programs:

The options are available, View, Mark Occurences:

while with Notepad2e those options are not available, but instead View, Highlight Current Word.

I have found the Notepad2e option distracting, as it highlights words as the cursor moves. Contrast with the other programs, which only highlight if you have selected text. I think the current option should be changed to match the other programs, or perhaps a new option could be added.

ProgerXP commented 4 years ago

I have found the Notepad2e option distracting, as it highlights words as the cursor moves. Contrast with the other programs, which only highlight if you have selected text.

For me, this is actually a deal breaker. Personally I am using the Highlight Current Word setting to spot typos (e.g. in variable names or regular human words) which is not possible if words are highlighted only when selected. I'm also an occasional user of Notepad++ and I find it inconvenient that I need to select something to highlight it, and that I can't highlight parts of a word or multiple words (with spaces).

Perhaps you simply need to configure your highlight styles to be less distracting? E.g. a pale underline. Also, remember you can somewhat "force" a highlighting style by entering Edit Word (Ctrl+Tab), the Edit prefix: https://github.com/ProgerXP/Notepad2e#current-word-highlighting, so other prefixes may specify no styling (transparent). But that requires an extra action (select + invoke Edit Word), not just selection.