Code highlight in merge request window

Problem to solve

When doing code review you sometimes want to follow a newly initialized and declared variable. This is hard to do since you need to ctrl+f the variable.

Intended users

Development Team Lead Software Developer DevOps Engineer

Further details

The use case is the code review. A benefit is the improvement of code review in terms of quality and speed (Faster understanding of context)

Proposal

As a developer, when I select a variable, the same variable should be highlighted elsewhere in the diff.

This would be the same as the Web IDE.

Permissions and Security

You need to be able to view the merge request diff

Documentation

Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

A success of this proposal would improve the merge request review. A measurement could be the number of times the code highlight feature is used.

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