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):

gedit - highlight 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.

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