SlickEdit User Guide

FIND AND REPLACE
Match Highlighting
Cursor on Symbol Shows All Uses in File
SlickEdit® can highlight all occurrences of the current symbol under the cursor. This makes it easy to see,
at a glance, all uses of a symbol in a file. This option can be set on a language-specific basis. To enable it,
from the main menu, click Tools > Options > Languages, expand your language category and language,
then select Context Tagging®. On the options screen, select Highlight matching symbols under
cursor.
The highlight color is controlled by the Symbol Highlight screen element (Tools > Options >
Appearance > Color). To change the color, see Setting Colors for Screen Elements. See Language-
Specific Context Tagging® Options for information about other options on the options screen.
This feature includes two advanced options that affect all languages that have Highlight matching
symbols enabled. These can be set through configuration variables (Macro > Set Macro Variable):
• def_highlight_symbols_max_bufsize - This variable sets the maximum buffer size, in bytes, for
symbol highlighting. If the buffer size is greater than the max size, highlighting is restricted to the
visible lines.
• def_highlight_symbols_max_matches - This variable sets the maximum number of matching
occurrences for symbol highlighting.
See Setting/Changing Configuration Variables for more information.
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