highlight multiple searches editor - suggestions

**mrmaxpires** · July 4th, 2013

Hello guys,

I'm openning this thread to ask you if you know an text editor that allow do highlight multiple words with differents colors.
In windows i use Notepad++, and it has a option call "style token" with 5 different colors that I can use to highlight any part of the txt file... although i can run notepad++ in linux using wine, but i'm trying to find another solution to do this...

I need this kind of feature to help me in log analisys... if you guys have any other editor that does that, please help me!

thank you
BR

Max

**mrmaxpires** · July 4th, 2013

I found an script for VI that enable something like that:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_multiple_words

but the problem now is with the numeric keypad mapping... the script of link above, assumes you have a numeric keypad already mapped on vi...
i'd tried some ways to do it, but didn't work...

any ideia?

**shawnhcorey** · July 4th, 2013

If you're using ViM, add this line to your `~/.vimrc` file. It will highlight all the search matches.

Code:

set hlsearch

**ofnuts** · July 5th, 2013

Are you talking about random search results or about syntax highlighting?

**mrmaxpires** · July 5th, 2013

Ago
ofnuts,

i'm talking about highlight multiple searches results...
example:

1) search <word1> - result will highlight all occurrences of word1

2) search <pattern1> - result will highlight all occurrences of pattern1.

in notepad++ i do that by selecting the word or pattern with mouse then right click on selected text and chose an style (color).