Double Clicking Highlighting

eclipse highlighting
bobber205 picture bobber205 · Aug 12, 2010 · Viewed 12.7k times · Source

In Notepad++ if you double click a word to highlight it, all the occurrences of the word in the file are also highlighted, a feature that is quite handy for finding where variables are declared/used.

Does the eclipse editor have this functionality? :) If so, how can I turn it on?

Answer

Tom Tresansky picture Tom Tresansky · Aug 12, 2010

For the Eclipse Java editor, you can go to Window->Preferences in the menu, then Java->Editor->Mark Occurrences in the options tree and check off anything you want highlighted in this way.

Note that the editor understands Java scoping rules, so if you have 2 local variables with the same name in two different functions, it will only highlight within the current function.

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