Text Editor that hilights all instances of selection for Mac
Sublime Text is able to do that.
Who said BBEdit couldn't do it?
With your document in the front window:
- Choose Search > Live Search ⌥ ⌘ F
- Enter your search string
- Notice that all instances of that string are now highlighted in your document
To make Live Search go away, click the Done button.
Reference: BBEdit 9.5 User Manual, pages 159-160
TextMate 2 does this really nicely bound to control-W
This macro [1] is built in.
^W
will select a word, but once a selection exists, ^W
will add the next instance to the (mult-) selection: Really nice feature!
Even better: double tap the shift key to un-select the last-added instance (great if you overshoot the set you wanted to select.
Even better: All of these are now separate selections, so you can type edit select and it works on each separately, but synchronously. Fabulous time saver!
[1] It's just a macro bound to ^W
with a dyn.selection
Scope selector
(
{ command = 'copySelectionToFindPboard:'; },
{ command = 'findNextAndModifySelection:'; },
)