highlighting: not syntax highlighting

atlantis43 · 09-14-2014, 12:00 PM

Some code I have shows "old fashioned" yellow highlighting of selected words commented out in gedit on my compiler. It looks like ordinary highlighting on a word processor.
Wondering if anyone knows how this was effected?
Gnome text editor doesn't seem to apply, as I don't see anything on there other than for syntax "highlighting".
Hope my question is clear.

NevemTeve · 09-14-2014, 12:04 PM

Absolutely clear. You use some version of gedit with some type of source-program and you have some problem with syntax highlighting (or lack of it.)

atlantis43 · 09-14-2014, 12:23 PM

Nevem:
No, no problem with syntax highlighting!
I'm only wondering how someone else was able to include automatic highligthing of selected words in GEdit. The words are in normal type, yet underscored in yellow, as done with a magic marker. I can't find such a feature in any of the plug-ins, etc.

NevemTeve · 09-14-2014, 12:28 PM

Guess you mean some 'find all; mark all' feature.

atlantis43 · 09-14-2014, 01:00 PM

something like that, I guess-----

Habitual · 09-14-2014, 01:28 PM

Open the file. select View Menu > Hightlight mode >

I have made no changes to a default opening of an .sh file and here's what it looks (attached)
and the selected hightmode chosen for me is
> Script > sh

Is that what you're after?

atlantis43 · 09-14-2014, 01:37 PM

No; What I'm speaking of is a line in gedit such as: //TODO where the phrase TODO is background-highlighted in yellow,

Smokey_justme · 09-14-2014, 01:43 PM

LE: I edited this
Ahh.. the background is highlighted? Ok.. Maybe it does this on words like //TODO: etc.. It's still syntax-highlight .. I don't think it's possible to create a document that tricks gedit into doing this with invisible characters..

Habitual · 09-14-2014, 04:22 PM

Does it look like this?

bah. Ctrl+k gave me that result, even after saving/closing x and re-opening it was highlighted.
But I can't reproduced it.

See also https://code.google.com/p/smart-highlighting-gedit/

atlantis43 · 09-14-2014, 06:44 PM

yes, like Control+F will do it in a search, but it is revocable.
The feature that I'm searching for is that any instance of a given string will show up as highlighted on any Gedit screen.

Habitual · 09-14-2014, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atlantis43

yes, like Control+F will do it in a search, but it is revocable.
The feature that I'm searching for is that any instance of a given string will show up as highlighted on any Gedit screen.

which is exactly what https://code.google.com/p/smart-highlighting-gedit/ shows on that page...