https://github.com/mnasyrov/wordlight
An add-in for Visual Studio 2008 that highlights all occurrences of a selected text
https://github.com/mnasyrov/wordlight
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An add-in for Visual Studio 2008 that highlights all occurrences of a selected text
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mnasyrov/wordlight
- Owner: mnasyrov
- Created: 2015-04-05T16:11:52.000Z (about 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-04-05T16:31:32.000Z (about 11 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2023-06-04T02:55:12.024Z (about 3 years ago)
- Topics: plugin, visual-studio
- Language: C#
- Homepage: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ad686131-47d4-4c13-ada2-5b1a9019fb6f
- Size: 559 KB
- Stars: 13
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 8
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- Readme: README.md
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README
WordLight
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About
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WordLight 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.
Usage
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It is pretty simply: when you selects a text, the add-in highlights all occurrences in a current document.
There is "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
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1. Unpack files to a folder for add-ins of your visual studio.
2. Restart the studio.
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
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You can change settings of the add-in by a command "WordLight settings..." under the "Tools" menu.
* Colors of marks for occurences;
* Hotkeys to freeze a search;
* Enable/disable case sensitive searching.
* Matching only whole words by search.
Tips and tricks
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Visual Studio 2008 has various shortcut keys for text search, which look nice with WordLight:
* `Ctrl+Shift+W` - selects a word at a text cursor. I recommend to remap it to {{{Ctrl+W}}};
* `Ctrl+F` - opens a Find dialog and puts a word at a text cursor into a search field;
* `F3` / `Shift+F3` - go to a next/previous occurrence of a search text;
* `Ctrl+D` - puts a word at a text cursor into a Find combo-box at a toolbar;
* `Ctrl+F3` / `Ctrl+Shift+F3` - puts a word at a text cursor into the Find combo-box and go to a next/previous its occurrence;
* `Ctrl+I` - Incremental search: waits for your input and searches as you type a text.