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  • #4120
    user
    Participant

    hello

    does EmEditor lacks the ability to find all words containing a string and highlight/select them all, or I am missing something?

    in the search box, there is a ‘find up’, a ‘find down’, but not a ‘find all’ button

    thanks

    #4122
    tungwaiyip
    Member

    How would you like to see the result of ‘find all words’?

    What I often do is to close the ‘Find’ dialog box. You will find all matched items highlighted. You can then use ‘Find Next Word’ or ‘Find Previous Word’ to navigate within the document.

    Another way is to use the ‘Find in Files’ to see all matched lines. It will search all files in specified directory though. I wish it has a easier way to saerch within the current document only.

    Wai Yip

    #4123
    user
    Participant

    How would you like to see the result of ‘find all words’?

    I want to select/highlight them all

    close the ‘Find’ dialog box. You will find all matched items highlighted

    I couldnt reproduce this

    #4125
    Yutaka Emura
    Keymaster

    I am not sure what you really want to do, but did you try
    Macro that extracts lines that contain the specified string?

    #4127
    user
    Participant

    no, I just want to highlight/select all the occurrence of the string I search

    #4243
    Dima
    Member

    click “Search” -> “Find…”

    in the “Find” window mark “Use regular expressions”
    type in “Find:” field
    w*(some_string)w*

    replace “some_string” with whatever you whant to.

    click “Find down” button.

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