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Habi
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Posted - Jul 09 2009 :  4:20:26 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello,

I have the following feature request:

I would like to have the possibility to highlight several words in different colors simultaneously. See this screenshot of a GVim session for an example (wResult and fBufferLocked are marked).

In GVim I use this feature very often to get a quick overview where which variable or function is used. I find this very helpful to understand code. Using different colors allows seeing very fast how variables and function are interacting with each other.

The idea is the following:

If the user presses a specific shortcut key the word under the cursor is highlighted with a background color. If the user moves the cursor over another word and presses the shortcut key, this word will also be highlighted, but with a different background color. And so on.
If the cursor is over an already highlighted word and the user presses the shortcut key then the word is un-highlighted.

I know that VAX has a similar feature, find references. But this allows just to highlight one variable/function.

What are your thoughts?

Greetings
Habi

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Posted - Jul 10 2009 :  3:55:48 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If you turn on:

VA Options -> Advanced -> Display -> Highlight find results

you can highlight a second word in a different colour, which can be configured via:

IDE tools menu -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors -> Display items = VA X Find Result

And you can also turn on:

VA Options -> Advanced -> Refactoring -> Automatically highlight references to symbol under cursor

which allows you to highlight a 3rd symbol in yet another colour.
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