Selection Highlighting for Gedit

A gedit plugin that adds support for selecting a string and highlighting all occurances of that string in the document.

Installation

####Unix/Linux If you're using Ubuntu 14.04(32-bit);

• (32-bit) move hilight.gedit-plugin and hilight.py to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/
• (64-bit) move hilight.gedit-plugin and hilight.py to/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/

Or you can try to move hilight.gedit-plugin and hilight.py into ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins.

• In Gedit, go to Edit → Preferences → Plugins to enable the plugin.

####Windows

• Move hilight.gedit-plugin and hilight.py into C:\Program Files\gedit\lib\gedit-2\plugins.
• In Gedit, go to Edit → Preferences → Plugins to enable the plugin.

Usage

• Select a word (double click) or any non-word string and press Ctrl-Shift-F to highlight all occurances of that string.
• Select nothing and press Ctrl-Shift-F to remove any highlights and return the text to original color.