WordLightAn add-in for Visual Studio 2008 that highlights all occurrences of a selected text |
About This is a small add-in for Visual Studio 2008. It searches and highlights substrings that are currently selected in a text editor. As a bonus, it works for Output, Command and Immediate windows too. Project home: https://github.com/mnasyrov/wordlight Usage It is pretty simply: when you selects a text, the add-in highlights all occurrences in a current document. There is a new "Freeze search" feature: you can freeze up to three search results in special mark groups, that stay during text editing. Freezing is called by next hotkeys (by default): Ctrl+`, Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2 for three groups. For example: you select a text, and all its occurences are marked by pink color automatically. Then you press Ctrl+`, and these marks moved to the blue group. To clear a freezing group just press a hotkey when nothing is selected. Installation
Usually, the folder is placed in "C:\Users\%UserName%\Documents\Visual Studio 2008" (for Win7) or "C:\Documents and Settings\%UserName%\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins" (for WinXP). It can be checked by "Add-in file paths" settings of the studio (menu Tools > Options > Environment > Add-in/Macros Security). Please note, the add-in requires installed .NET Framework 3.5 to run. Settings You can change settings of the add-in by a command "WordLight settings..." under the "Tools" menu.
Tips and tricks Visual Studio 2008 has various shortcut keys for text search, which look nice with WordLight:
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