gedit plugin to highlight all instances of selection
You don't need any plugin to highlight all instances of a selection in gedit. Select the text about you are interested in, then just press Ctrl+F (to search all instances of that selected text):
Now, let me give you some explanations about those plugins. First one, smart-highlighting
is working like a charm for me. How I made:
- First I checked my gedit version (from terminal with
gedit --version
command) - it's 3.6.2. - Because my gedit version is 3.6.2, I downloaded smart-highlighting-3.0.5.tar.gz.
- Finally, I followed the manually installation method.
Second plugin, it's for gedit2.x and finish. It's not enough a simple hack like you tried.
[UPDATE]
Only works if installed to ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/
. More in comments.