This plugin is a very simple plugin that will highlight a word you selected. I found this in Intellij Idea and loved this feature so I added it here.

Highlight Usage

There are severals methods to add highlights : the first one is the old one, you select a word, call highlight and the highlight appears. The second one is a dialog that will allow you to create regexp, choose color ... You can also highlight the last searched word

You can have multiple highlights at the same time, choose colors and use regexp.

You can toggle all highlights on or off, or toggle only the highlights you want.

And there is also a panel to manage your highlights (it is the only way to remove only of them).

Scope :
Now the highlights have a scope. The default scope is PERMANENT. The new scopes are SESSION (this scope works like permanent scope but will not be saved when closing jEdit. The last is the BUFFER scope. It will be activated only in the buffer where it was created.

History

• 2.5 (October 13, 2021)
• Fix jEdit release dependency
• 2.4 (April 21, 2021)
• Fix a memory leak where the memory was not completely released when a buffer was closed
• Highlight overview is now multithreaded
• Highlight overview is now disabled for files with over 200000 lines
• 2.3 (Jul 22, 2016)
• Allow negative line spacing (patch #171 from Makarius)
• Ok & Cancel buttons now use common labels (patch #174 from Makarius)
• Add an option to ignore selections smaller than a number of char
• Fix highlight selection under caret not working in splitted panes
• 2.2 (May 28, 2015)
• Fix a bug in color highlight with soft wrap
• Add an option to ignore selections smaller than a number of char
• Fix highlight selection under caret not working in splitted panes
• 2.1 (Oct 23, 2013)
• Hide exceptions when selection is not a valid regexp pattern
• 2.0 (Aug 12, 2013)
• Information lost in translation (I don't remember)
• 1.10.0 (Aug 12, 2013)
• New option to highlight entire word for selection highlight
• 1.9.13 (Apr 12, 2013)
• Minor optimization: use of a segment instead of a string, the ColorPainter
• 1.9.12 (Mar 22, 2013)
• Added an option to choose round corner or not
• Fixed highlighter ignoring extra line spacing
• 1.9.11 (Oct 08, 2012)
• Fixed word at caret and selection highlight not highlighted immediately when activating the option (#3574730)
• 1.9.10 (May 25, 2012)
• Fixed NPE during initialization if highlight overview is disabled (#3509281)
• Fixed color highlight disabled at startup because the plugin was able to switch to defer mode (#3522011)
• Fix color highlight when using softwrap (patch #3521997 from funa take)
• 1.9.9 (Feb 21, 2012)
• When highlighting current word, the word under the caret is not filled with color but has only a square around it to help readability
• Added an option to choose if highlight overview should use the same highlight color as the highlight or another color
• When highlight overview is active, the number of lines containing the word will be shown in the status bar
• 1.9.8 (Dec 4, 2011)
• Fixed a regression preventing from adding new highlights (patch from Shozo Fukuda)
• 1.9.7 (Nov 17, 2011)
• Fixed jEdit not remembering when the Highlight option pane was last selected
• Fixed Highlight overview not updated when there is no word to highlight
• Highlight overview now use the color of the current word highlight
• Highlight are now round rect making distinction between selection and highlight easier to see.
• Highlight colors are now underlined instead of filled rectangle
• 1.9.6 (Aug 19, 2011)
• Moved the color painter to a lower layer so the caret highlight is on top of it.
• 1.9.5 (Aug 09, 2011)
• Fixed ' changed into &apos in Hypersearch results highlight (#3310376)
• Removed the highlight subsequence option, too complex for not a good result.
• The selection highlight do not highlight the current selection anymore so it is easier to see where the caret is.
• 1.9.1 (Jan 29, 2011)
• If the buffer is empty, opening highlight dialog give a NPE (bug #3160075)
• 1.9.0 (Oct 19, 2010)
• Highlight now colors in the buffer
• 1.8.4 (Aug 4, 2010)
• The Highlight dialog contains the current word under caret by default
• 1.8.3 (May 20, 2010)
• Fix selection highlight not always updated (patch #3004382) (Kazutoshi Satoda)
• 1.8.2 (May 6, 2010)
• Disabling highlight overview was not working (#2983441)
• Performance improvement when moving caret
• 1.8.1 (Mar 5, 2010)
• Huge performance improvement in Highlight overview
• Highlighter now use CharSequence, it should have lower memory footprint and lower CPU usage
• Highlighter now highlight only in the first 10000 characters of a line for better performances
• 1.8.0 (Feb 2, 2010)
• If the highlight serialized data are broken the plugin will not be broken anymore
• New highlight overview next to the right scrollbar (Szalai Endre)
• Fix a bug when choosing an arbirary layer value
• The cycle color options were displayed twice
• 1.6.0 (Aug 25, 2009)
• New option to highlight the current selection that is under the caret
• 1.5.3 (Mar 24, 2009)
• Highlight regex can now match beginning or end of line using ^ and $ (Shlomy Reinstein)
• 1.5.2 (Jan 23, 2009)
• Fixed highlight update when some folds are closed
• 1.5.1 (Dec 06, 2008)
• Added the ability to choose the layer and alpha blending level (feature #1884608}
• Added a square around the highlighted text
• When softwrap was on, a the line below the highlighted word was highlighted too (#2383346)
• The color cycle was deactivated after jEdit restart (#1909405)
• 1.4.2 (May 14, 2007)
• Button for hypertext search added in the highlight panel, thanks to Martin Raspe
• The color cycling option was not loaded at plugin launch
• Some bugs using soft wrap fixed (#1595219)
• Fixed wrong painting when changing font size
• 1.4.1 (Jul 25, 2006)
• ArrayOutOfBoundsException fixed
• 1.3.4 (Jul 18, 2006)
• Change : Minor change in option pane design (use of separator).
• Bugfix : highlight current search will now take the ignore case flag of the last search.
• New regex api : removed gnu.regex.* dependency
• Textarea extension rewritten for better performances
• 1.3.2 (Jan 20, 2006)
• New feature : highlight status enabled or disabled are saved when closing jEdit.
• 1.3.1 (Oct 6, 2005)
• New feature : highlight current word.
• New feature : choice between color cycle or only one default color.
• New feature : option to replace previous highlights instead of adding them.
• Bugfix : the Highlighter text area extension is now correctly removed when a textarea is closed
• 1.3.0 (May 29, 2005)
• New feature : highlight scope.
• 1.2.1 (May 11, 2005)
• 1193535 bug fixed (wrong highlights with soft wrap)
• Small optimization on highlight saving and loading
• 1.2.0 (Mar 25, 2005)
• The highlights are now on top layer and have 50% transparency, so you can see them while selecting text.
• The plugin is now launched at startup so you do not have to open dockable panel to activate highlights loaded at startup.
• 1.1.0 (Feb 19, 2005)
• A dockable list of all your highlights
• A regexp support
• Case sensitive / insensitive choice
• You can now choose the color of the highlight
• There can be multiple highlights at the same time
• The highlight box is now on a back layer so the selection will be on top of the highlight
• Highlights are saved when jEdit is closed and restored when jEdit is launched
• bugfix : The painter extension wasn't corectly unloaded
• 1.0.1 (Dec 11, 2004)
• A menu added in the plugin menu
• A link to the help file
• 1.0.0 (Jul 25, 2004)
• Initial Release

Feedback

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