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Notepad++ highlights all occurrences of selected text in file. Is there a way to make selected text be highlighted in multiple views?
For example.
I have 2 views.
In view 1 I have this text:
one one two one one two one one
In 2nd view I have this text
three three three three two three two
Is there a way to make Notepad++ highlight string 'two' in view 1 and view 2 if I select it in view 1?
Edit: sorry, I missed the without resorting to Regular Expressions. Sadly, you'll need to use a RegEx to do this as far as I know. I've setup the RegEx below for you.
Under find in files use Alpha.*Bravo in the Find what select Regular expression and .matches newline.
Select the Directory to search in and you should find your files.
If you need them in other order as well, you can do the same inverting the words: Bravo.*Alpha
If there is different case possibilities you'll need to show that IE [aA]lpha.*[bB]ravo
Just use the mark feature.
Open the Search & Replace dialog and go to the Mark tab.
Enter your search term and click Mark All.
All occurrences are now permanently marked:
To remove the marks, simply open the dialog again and click Clear all marks.
Alternatively, while you have the word selected, you can use the Mark functionality in the Search menu:
This also allows you to mark all occurrences of a given string in the document (and you can even have multiple markers going on simultaneously).
Please note that both approaches work perfectly fine with partial words. In fact, multiple markers can apply to the same partial string. Here I've used a marker for port and one for mporta:
Best Answer
This is now present as setting Highlight another view in Notepad++'s Preferences on Highlighting page:
(It is possible it wasn't there at time when you asked.)