Sublime Text Tutorials #20

All I'm looking for is to be able to highlight a text like we normally highlight text with yellow in Mircrosoft Word. This feature is available in Notpad++.

When I select a word, it will highlight all the other matching words. However, when the word starts with a hyphen (a dash) like a variable in CSS, eg --theme- ...

Selection highlighting is limited to words only in ST. The intention is to reduce the number of false positives.

From googling , I found a way to do this: it involves the following 3 steps. Select the word/words Press Ctrl+F Alt + F3. But, I want to achieve ...

This plugin highlights all copies of a word that's currently selected, or, optionally, highlights all copies of a word which currently has the insertion cursor ...

Highlight: Select “Edit > Highlight Words > Highlight Words” and enter the words (separated by whitespace) · Unhighlight: Select “Edit > Highlight Words > ...

Additionally you may select all these words highlighted with ALT + ENTER , or also may append to the selection these words one by one similar to CTRL + D .

I can not find a way to select all instances of a word type, similarly how different words are colored according to the format rules from the ...

You can highlight all matchings with currently selected text by clicking Alt-F3 (or Find -> Quick find all)

Here are some useful key combos for selecting words in Sublime Text. Ctrl ⌘ G - selects all occurrences of the current word ( Alt F3 on Windows/Linux)