Need help figuring this out.

[Mike 0]

I’m looking to know how I did this before. I haven’t been able to do it since.

All my attempts to replicate this have failed as I don’t know the key that was accidently pressed to do this.

I pressed ctrl+f to search for a term.
I chose find all and somehow all of that same word was highlighted in green through the entire document which was extremely helpful. For the life of me I can’t remember what key on the keyboard had to be pressed to do this.

If someone could tell me what key I pressed on accident to achieve this it would be extremely appreciated. My documents are very long with alot of duplicate words. Having them highlighted would help me tremendously. Thank you.

I didn’t goto the mark tab, it just highlighted all of my search results in green which was so helpful.

Also can you tell me how to do a wildcard search in Notepad ++
/*. I seem to remember it was something like this, but I rarely use wildcards these days.

Your program is amazing! I have been using it for years as my goto editor.

[Coises]

@Mike-0 said in Need help figuring this out.:

all of that same word was highlighted in green through the entire document

First, check this. Choose Settings | Preferences… from the main menu, select Highlighting on the left, and look in the box on the right labeled Smart Highlighting.

Is the checkbox labeled Enable checked? If not, check it, click Close at the bottom of the dialog, and see if what happens now is the behavior you expected.

[Coises]

@Mike-0 said in Need help figuring this out.:

Also can you tell me how to do a wildcard search in Notepad ++
/*. I seem to remember it was something like this, but I rarely use wildcards these days.

You can use regular expressions. Start by reading the relevant section of the online manual and then come back if you have questions.