NO LONGER MAINTAINED

This extension is no longer maintained. The repository has been archived but can still be forked. It is licensed under MIT.

The Accent Occurrences extension adds an accent/highlight feature to Visual Studio 2012-2015 that allows you to quickly see all the occurrences of a selected word or selected characters.

Features:

• Customizable colors for background, border, font, and glyph
• TOOLS → Options... → Environment → Fonts and Colors → Accent Occurrences (Box/Font/Glyph)
• Hold the Ctrl key while selecting text to make the search case sensitive
• Select using the keyboard or mouse.

Please review this extension. Feedback, questions, and comments are most welcome.

Default

Case sensitive holding down the Ctrl key

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OnTheDarkSide

TOOLS → Options... → Environment → Fonts and Colors → Accent Occurrences (Box/Font/Glyph)

Version History:

1.3.0 - White-space only selections are now ignored.  If you select text that contains both white-space and non-white-space characters the white-space will not be ignored.

- See Github for more details.

1.2.1 - 1.2.2 - Reverted references to an older version allowing the extension to install and run correctly in older versions of Visual Studio.

- See Github for more details.

1.2.0 - Now installable in Visual Studio 2012-2015 (Community, Pro, and Enterprise).

- Created a Github repository for the project.

1.1.0 - Now installable in Visual Studio 2013 as well as 2012.

1.0.1 - Fixed an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." error that prevented the extension from installing correctly through the Visual Studio Extensions and Updates manager.

1.0.0 - Initial Release