Find Highlighted

Submitted by abc123 on Monday, 17 September, 2007 - 15:51

Does anyone know how to find the currently highlighted text in Jedit? What I mean is:

1. Highlight a word
2. Execute a key stroke that then finds that word immediately

I can kind of get this to work if I use the Incremental Search Bar but it requires a keystroke to get the highlighted characters into the Incremental Search Bar and then another keystroke to find whatever was copied into the Incremental Search bar. I'd like to be able to do this with one keystroke. Hypersearch is good but I don't always want to open another window.

Do you mean select when you w

by Redoute on Mon, 17/09/2007 - 19:36

Do you mean select when you write highlight? And you want to search for the next occurence of the selected word/text?

There is an action Incremental Search for Word with default shortcut A+COMMA (don't know how to type this, I am only able to get A+,). It invokes incremental search with the selected text, or with the word at cursor position if there is no selection. If you bind it for example to F3, then F3, Enter will take you to the next occurence.

As far as I understand, the plugin Shortcut Saver should allow to combine several actions (quick-search-word find-next) to a single keystroke, but I didn't get this to work.

(using/learning jEdit 4.3pre10)

Your suggestion on Shortcut S

by abc123 on Wed, 19/09/2007 - 14:57

Your suggestion on Shortcut Saver is exactly what I'd like to do but I couldn't get it to work either. Although it does seem to work as long as it's not assigned to a keyboard shortcut.....

OK, here is my very first try

by Redoute on Wed, 19/09/2007 - 18:15

OK, here is my very first try with Beanshell:

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\User\.jedit\macros\Next_Occurence.bsh:
-----
if (textArea.getSelectedText() == null) {
textArea.selectWord();
}
x = textArea.getSelectedText();
SearchAndReplace.setSearchString(x);
SearchAndReplace.setAutoWrapAround(false);
SearchAndReplace.setReverseSearch(false);
SearchAndReplace.setIgnoreCase(false);
SearchAndReplace.setRegexp(false);
SearchAndReplace.setSearchFileSet(new CurrentBufferSet());
SearchAndReplace.find(view);
textArea.moveCaretPosition(textArea.getSelection(0).getStart());
-----

... and bind this to a shortcut. Smiling

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Hi Redoute, I tried this b

by abc123 on Fri, 21/09/2007 - 15:39

Hi Redoute,

I tried this but I got back an error from Beanshell saying

Sourced file: /home/me/.jedit/macros/next_occurence.bsh : Error in method invocation: Method getSelection( int ) not found in class'org.gjt.sp.jedit.textarea.JEditTextArea' : at Line: 12 : in file: /home/me/.jedit3/macros/next_occurence.bsh : textArea .getSelection ( 0 )

Am I missing some packages or something?

According to the API docs the

by Redoute on Fri, 21/09/2007 - 17:23

According to the API docs the method getSelection(int) is implemented since jEdit 4.3pre1. If you are using an older version (which probably does not support multiple selections), it may work without the zero, then the last line is:

textArea.moveCaretPosition(textArea.getSelection().getStart());

Without this command the caret (cursor) was set to the end of the text, and the search couldn't be easy continued.

I tried leaving out the '0' b

by abc123 on Tue, 25/09/2007 - 12:58

I tried leaving out the '0' but it gave me some other errors (4.2final). So I tried it with 4.3pre9 and it worked! Cool! Thanks very much for your help with this. I might even try doing a few of these .bsh scripts in future!

file	ver	dls
GdbPlugin for jEdit 4.5+	0.5	1147
Hypersearch results analysis	1.0	2232
German Language Pack for jEdit 5 (up-to-date)	5.3	4141
Goal column macros	1.0	4028
Hyper-search all .txt files in home dir	1	3284
Select line	1.0	3444
Open_Copied_Path.bsh	1.0	8498
Select_All_or_Lines.bsh	1.0	3409
A BeanShell macro script to search and open a recent file or a file in the current directory.	1.0	5630
Select contents in between parentheses (excluding parentheses)	1.0	3539

file	ver	dls
German Localization light	4.4.2.1	82348
Context Free Art (*.cfdg)	0.31	46055
JBuilder scheme	.001	18495
BBEdit scheme	1.0	18116
ColdFusion scheme	1.0	18024
R Edit Mode - extensive version	0.1	17473
Advanced HTML edit mode	1.0	16206
Matlab Edit Mode	1.0	16068
jEdit XP icons	1.0	15229
XP icons for jEdit	1.1	14293

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