I tried using the Toggle mark occurrences (Alt + Shift + O)
button and also in Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editor -> Annotations
and setting the C/C++ Occurrences and C/C++ Write occurrences. But still when I select a word it won't highlight all occurrences of that specific word.
What I am using is Eclipse Indigo Service Release 2 in XP, with a C++ project.
You can try to activate Toggle Mark Occurrences with icon on Toolbar:
Preferences --> Java --> Editor --> Mark Occurrences
In General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations
Check out options that are checked in Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Mark occurrences. Then restart Eclipse.
Find the Preferences
under Window
,
In General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations
(1)
(5) is to select the color and press apply.
The standard "Mark Occurrences" functionality included in Eclipse that everyone recommends only highlights identifiers in editors of whatever language. For example, it won't highlight int
in C editors, and it won't help at all in the Console pane.
So if you want to highlight ALL occurrences on ANY word in ANY Eclipse pane (kinda like Notepad++ does), try the Glance plug-in for Eclipse.
As of November 2017 Glance works for Eclipse Neon and Oxygen. There was a period of time in which Neon was unsupported, and a fork appeared, but it seems unnecessary now (and abandoned).
If you go into the window-prefrences, select the language you want/are working with. Select the editor under this specific language and then there is a mark occurrences there that has some options. Where it says keep marks when the selection changes, for me this was checked. When I unchecked it the system started highlighting correctly.
For folks who are using a dark background with light font colors, you may want to check out the highlight color in Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editor -> Annotations
. Mine was defaulted to black, which does not stand out on a black background.
For Eclipse Mars:
Window --> Preferences --> Check (Mark occurrences of the selected element in the current file.)
As shown if figure:
Go
Java> Editor > Mark Occurrences
Uncheck "Keep Marks when the section changes" then click Ok
Restart Eclipse.
This work for me.
- Click the word and hold until a popup appears as shown in the figure.
- On the popup, there is a little right arrow, after clicking it, a new icon shows up.
- Click that link to open
preferences
.
- Once in
preferences
, select C/C++ Occurrences
(it will be language specific) and select Include in next/previous navigation
with Text as Highlighted
.
This should enable the feature of highlighting all occurences of the selected word in the opened file.