[CrashNBurn]

The Find Highlight feature is interesting, though I find it annoying more so than helpful in many cases.

I’d like to see an option, if possible, on the Find Dialog:

[X] Erase Find Highlight on Close.

Thanks.

[Yutaka Emura]

Hi CrashNBurn,

Thanks for your comments! You can also set “0” in the Character Space text box in the Display tab of configuration properties.

Thanks!

[CrashNBurn]

That particular setting [ character space: 0 ] appears to increase the spacing between each character of your current font…

The request was to have a checkbox on the Find-Dialog that can be easily toggled on/off so that when the Find-Dialog is closed the Find Highlights get cleared (when checked) and not cleared (when not checked).

[Yutaka Emura]

Hi CrashNBurn,

I am sorry. I mean “Search Colors” text box, not “Character Space” in the Display tab of configuration properties.

Thanks!

[CrashNBurn]

I didn’t want to disable the Find Highlight.
My request was to to automatically clear the Find Highlight when the Find Dialog was closed — if a checkbox on the find dialog was checked: [x] Clear Highlights.

I solved it with AutoHotKey. The original AHK solution was Kludgy and didn’t work consistently.

Perhaps someone else will find some use for it.
Fixed clean code:

;;

	;;  Script: EE_AutoClearFindHighlight.ahk

	;;  Author: MwM - Crash&Burn, 2010

	;;  Usage:: 

	;;    Automatically clear the Find Highlight when EmEditor's

	;;    Find Dialog is closed with the [Close] Button.

	;;

	;;    Does not clear the Find Highlight if ESC, or the 

	;;    Find Dialog's TitleBar [X] is used, nor if a modifier

	;;    key is held down when clicking [Close] (i.e. Shift)

	;;

	  #SingleInstance, Force 

	  #NoEnv

	SetBatchLInes, -1

	

	#ifWinActive, Find ahk_class #32770

	{

	  ~LButton::

	; $ESC::

	  {  

	    aParent := DllCall( "GetParent", UInt, WinExist("A") )

	    aParent := (( !aParent ) ? WinExist("A") : aParent )

	    WinGetClass, aClass, ahk_id \%aParent\% 

	    if( aClass <> "EmEditorMainFrame3" )

	      return

	    if( A_ThisHotKey == "LButton" )

	    {

	      MouseGetPos, ,, aFind, aControl

	      if( aControl <> "Button16" )

	        return

	      KeyWait, LButton

	      Sleep, 50

	      ifWinExist, ahk_id \%aFind\%

	        return

	      WinWaitActive, ahk_class EmEditorMainFrame3

	      Send, !{F3}

	    }

	    ;; If one wanted the Find Highlight to clear on ESC

	    ;; Remove comment block below, and uncomment ESC above.

	    /*

	     *

	    else    

	    if( A_ThisHotKey == "$ESC" )        ;;  Not clearing Find Highlight on ESC, atm

	    {

	      Send, {ESC}

	      Sleep, 50

	      ifWinExist, ahk_id \%aFind\%

	        return

	      WinWaitActive, ahk_class EmEditorMainFrame3

	      Send, !{F3}

	    }

	     *

	     */

	  return

	  }

	return

	}  

	

[CrashNBurn]

Updated Previous post with much cleaner/functional code.

[Jibz]

I quite like the way Notepad++ does this particular feature. As soon as you select a piece of text that could be an identifier, it will highlight all nearby matches, and when you deselect again the highlight is removed.

It is quite convenient for quickly seeing places a variable is referenced in a source file.

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Jibz,

I might add that feature in future versions of EmEditor.
Thanks for your comments!

[CrashNBurn]

I updated my AHK fix for this,
1) Automatically Clear the Find Highlight when you Click [Close] on the Find|Replace dialog.
2) Does NOT clear the Find highlight if:
—> you press keyboard {ESC} or
—> click [X] on Titlebar. or
—> Shift+Click, or Ctrl+Click.

#ifWinActive, Find ahk_class #32770, &Search All Open Documents

	{

	    $LButton::    IWA_32770_FindReplace( "{LButton Down}" )

	    $LButton UP:: IWA_32770_FindReplace( "{LButton Up}"   )

	return

	}

	#ifWinActive, Replace ahk_class #32770, Search All &Open Documents

	{

	    $LButton::    IWA_32770_FindReplace( "{LButton Down}" )

	    $LButton UP:: IWA_32770_FindReplace( "{LButton Up}"   )

	return

	}

	

	WinGetParentClass(winTitle="A", winText="", exTitle="", exText="")

	{

	    WinGetClass, wClass, \% "ahk_id " DllCall( "GetParent", "UInt", WinExist(winTitle, winText, exTitle, exText))

	return wClass

	}

	

	IWA_32770_FindReplace(mKeyF)

	{

	    EmEditorMainFrame3_sendKey:="!{F3}", EmEditorMainFrame3_control:="Button16" 

	    ControlGetFocus, cgFocus

	    Send, \% ((wpClass:=WinGetParentClass()) && doKey:=(cgFocus==\%wpClass\%_control)) ? mKeyF : mKeyF

	    if( GetKeyState("Ctrl") || GetKeyState("Shift") )

		return

	    Send, \% (doKey && (WinGetClass("A")==wpClass) && \%wpClass\%_sendKey) ? \%wpClass\%_sendKey : "" 

	return

	}

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