Highlight words in Gedit?

[iniesta]

Hi there,

In some IDEs such as Eclipse, NetBeans etc. if we select a word (by double clicking it) then all other instances of that word in the current document will be highlighted. In Gedit this does not happen.

Is there any option/setup or plugin which activates this feature in Gedit?

Thanks in advance!

Iniesta.

[Mighty_Joe]

Sorry, I'm thinking context highlighting. Different thing.

[kellemes]

I'm not using Gedit myself, using Geany (http://www.geany.org/) myself (has this feature neither)..
But as far I know Gedit doesn't offer this..
It does offer "incremental search", maybe an acceptable alternative?

Copy/Paste from some place..

For example, if you search for “the” you would first type ‘t’,
and gedit would highlight every ‘t’ in the document.
You would then type the ‘h’, and gedit would highlight every occurrence
of “th” in the document. Finally, when you type the ‘e’ gedit would
highlight every occurrence of “the” in the document.

[oldos2er]

Does Ctrl-K do what you want?

[stinkeye]

Does Ctrl-K do what you want?
Thanks, thats a good tip.

[=CrAzYG33K=]

Does Ctrl-K do what you want?

Sorry for bumping this up, but coming from a Windows/Notepad++ user, I find life to be pretty uncomfortable without this feature (not available even as a plugin?). Ctrl-K does seem to work, but it's a crude way of achieving the same thing. Are we missing anything?

[skajotde]

You can use nice plugin gedittolls - from https://github.com/mmuell23/mmuell23/tree/master/gedittools

[bcpaes]

Does Ctrl-K do what you want?

You can also use CTRL + SHIFT + M to highlight all..

But I appreciate if someone could have this done for double click selecting the word!

Thanks!