[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Feature Requests-2446121 ] Highlight terms in HyperSearch Results Window/co

Feature Requests item #2446121, was opened at 2008-12-18 13:15
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Category: core
Group: v4.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: dmusicant (dmusicant)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Highlight terms in HyperSearch Results Window/color for type

Initial Comment:
It would be a big increase in usability if the terms searched for were highlighted in the lines displayed in the hypersearch results window and the lines were colored for type (e.g. comments in "comment" color). 

When there are a lot of results, and the terms are only part of each line, it can be difficult to find the relevant ones.

For example: 

I might search for the term "boolean" but I'm not interested in any cases where it appears in a comment, or where it's part of a method name.

So instead of:

public boolean doIt() {
public void booleanChecker(int boolVal) {
this appears in a multi-line comment about booleans

I would see (excuse the HTML code):

public <font style="color: BLUE;">boolean</font> doIt() {
public void <font style="color: BLUE;">boolean</font>Checker(int boolVal) {
<font style="color: GREEN;">this appears in a multi-line comment about <font style="color: BLUE;">boolean</font>s</font>

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>Comment By: Shlomy Reinstein (shlomy)
Date: 2013-11-28 00:52

Message:
In addition to syntax highlighting, it would be very nice to also be able
to use the settings of the Highlight plugin in the hypersearch results.
Many times I use a some other log viewer tool just because it adds the
ability to paint parts of the search results differently; for example I
search for the regexp "started|ended" and I want "started" to be painted
one way and "ended" be painted another way. Adding the capabilities of
Highlight plugin into the hypersearch results would eliminate the need to
use a log viewer.

Then it would be nice if we could configure how to paint the hypersearch
results; either use type-specific style, or use the Highlight plugin, or
both.

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Comment By: Shlomy Reinstein (shlomy)
Date: 2009-04-05 23:27

Message:
While it can be a big increase in usability, applying syntax highlighting
in the hypersearch results is not feasible in general. It can be feasible
for several edit modes, but not all. In general, the token type of a word
in the text cannot be derived just by reading the line of the token; e.g.
in order to find out that a word belongs to a multi-line comment, jEdit
must start marking syntax tokens from the first line of the comment. If
just the line of the word is marked for tokens, the same word would not be
seen as a comment.

Of course, multi-file hypersearch reads the entire files for matching the
search pattern, but this is much quicker than marking tokens in the files.
Marking tokens can make the hypersearch unacceptably slow.

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Comment By: Shlomy Reinstein (shlomy)
Date: 2009-01-29 15:35

Message:
An enhanced implementation of hypersearch result highlighting is now
available in the SVN trunk version of the Highlight plugin. It does not use
jEdit token types - it simply uses the highlighting configuration of the
Highlight plugin. A new action in that plugin applies the highlighting to
the hypersearch results.

Let me know if this satisfied your feature request or not. I think an
enhanced version like you suggest is a little bit too much to place in the
core.

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Comment By: Shlomy Reinstein (shlomy)
Date: 2009-01-29 14:00

Message:
Partial implementation - simple highlighting of matches in the hypersearch
results - is added in SVN rev. 14514. Currently - the highlighting is by
displaying the matches in bold - no coloring and no configurable
highlighting.

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