Interactive Recognition Patterns

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* John M Church wrote (2006-11-21 08:17):
>I want to label/highlight/backlight all the file at once so the user can 
>easily scroll back-n-forth, split panes, etc. to see all the switches 
>that match.  Can macros do this?

This looks certainly doable with macros. Let the user pick a word they
want to highlight (or a line, ...), find all occurrences of that word
and add it to a colored rangeset.

You can also detect some more complicated pattern around the word
picked and add different parts of the text to different rangesets. I
still don't understand your data files, so think C for an example:
- put mouse cursor in 'if',
- activate macro,
- mark all ifs dark green, all if blocks light green, all elses dark
  red, all else blocks ligth red.


Thorsten                                                Radiohead: Let Down
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