Highlight Selection Word or Block.

[seanliang]

Highlight Selection Word or Block.

[seanliang]

Turn on the "Regular Expression" option (Edit > Highlight Words > Toggle Settings), then you can use "\ " (For example, "Hello\ World") to treat multiple words as a block.

[liuhewei]

@seanliang Hi Sean,

Could you add some documentation for the regex syntax which is used in HighlightWords? I found it's not totally the same general usage in python, ruby and other languages, or not cover all the features.

Thanks.

[ctf0]

@seanliang ,worked for the first time and then stopped ,also most of the time it just falls back to selecting matched words only whether the Regular Expression is on or off.

[seanliang]

@liuhewei Yeah, I found that too. According to this page, Sublime Text uses the Boost syntax for regular expressions.

[seanliang]

@ctf0 Would you please post the sample text and search term to clarify your problem? A screenshot is better.

[ctf0]

@seanliang

what am after is to color the whole selected text (as a one piece with one color).

[seanliang]

@ctf0 I've updated the plugin to fix a bug of translating the selected text into regular expressions. Would you please update and check whether your problem is gone?

[ctf0]

@seanliang now it works but there are a couple of bugs ,

1-when you chose to highlight words option from the quick panel ,it doesn't clear the previews regex so now if you want to highlight something it will be highlighted + whatever you highlighted b4.(even if you used the unhighlight option b4 you select new text)

2-pressing esc doesn't do anything ,u still get the highlighting ,i believe its related to the bug above.

[liuhewei]

@ctf0 Yes, it also bothers me a little. I think better clear all the highlight words when I escape the panel. It's easier for me.

[ctf0]

@liuhewei ,thanx for ur hard work ,hope the PR gets merged soon.

[laramjo]

They could give me an example of how to change the color of the word to highlight

(google translate.)