[ArthurZ]

Hi there,
Unless it is lurking somewhere in the settings, I am missing badly the Notepad++ feature that highlights all the found strings, hence is my search functionality improvement suggestion –
allow multiple found strings highlighted after search /replace.
Thanks

[Patrick C]

http://www.emeditor.org/en/faq_view_view_find_highlight.html

Tools → Properties for all Configurations → Display → scroll way down to “search string” → change search colours on the right from 0 to 1 to however many colours for previous search results you could possibly want.

+ To erase the highlight
Search → Erase Find Highlight (shortcut Alt-F3 in my configuration)

[ArthurZ]

Awesome, thank you Patrick!

[ArthurZ]

No way to erase highlight on mouse leaving found text. This is a deficiency in the need to use the keyboard or mouse to erase the highlights. And no option to clear the previous search on the next round automatically.
Please add.

[ArthurZ]

Oh, and on double-clicking text there is no feature that highlights matches, right?

[Patrick C]

Actually I’m surprised that non EmEditor’s highlighted string features are activated by default in your case.
Anyway regarding:

on double-clicking text there is no feature that highlights matches

There is:
1) Tools → Customise Markers → Enable AutoMarker

2) To change the highlighting colour (also useful if enabling AutoMarker alone doesn’t work due to no colour being assigned to mark matches)
Tools → Properties for all Configurations → Display → scroll down to “Auto Marker” → change the text and background colour to your liking

[Patrick C]

And no option to clear the previous search on the next round automatically.

I don’t get this one. As long as the number of search colours is one, the previous search is cleared automatically.

[Patrick C]

No way to erase highlight on mouse leaving found text.

Out of curiosity:
How should this work? Move the mouse over highlighted text and out again?

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