Introduction

This module provides the functionality of highlighting the occurrences of text matching a regular expression. It uses java.util.regexp.Pattern to match the regular expressions. Optionally it can highlights the regular expression groups in different colors.

To highlight the regular expressions click on Edit:Highlight Regular Expressions menu item or Highlight Regular Expressions toolbar button. Type the regular expression in the regular expression text field in the toolbar. The text matching the regular expression is highlighted in the open editor. If there is a syntax error in regular expression, the regular expression text is shown in red in the text field. Select the Match Case toolbar button to make the regular expression matching case sensitive. Select the Highlight Groups toolbar button to highlight the regular expression groups in different colors. The Highlight Groups is selected by default.

What's new in this version

Based on a user request added Ctrl+Down keybinding to the regexp textfield to insert properly escaped regexp at the current caret position in the current editor.