How to do search selection without actually selecting text for editing?

[vadi2]

Sublime allows selecting, or highlighting searched text of sorts without the text actually being selected for editing when you use the 'search in all open files' option. Is this possible in edbee?

[gamecreature]

Do you mean this kind of selection (Which isn't the true selection?)

[gamecreature]

At the moment edbee only renders the current selection ...

You can control the complete rendering yourself, by subclassing the TextEditorRenderer class and make edbee use the new[renderer via:

widget->textEditorComponent()->giveTextEditorRenderer( .. )

Maybe I should build in support for custom non-selected regions (painting extra regions with borders like sublime does). By adding an extra TextRangeSet that can be set.

btw. To find textranges in edbee editor, you can use the TextSearcher class, which supports regexp searching and multiple selections.

[gamecreature]

I've just implemented TextEditorController::borderedTextRanges...
Just add ranges here and you will see the same kind of non-selected ranges in the editor widget..
Edbee-App has been updated to, so it marks the current search wordt. (Liver while editing the search term)

Example for the FindWidget in the edbee app:

void FindWidget::textChanged(const QString &text)
{
    edbee::TextEditorController* controller = editorRef_->controller();
    edbee::TextSearcher* searcher = controller->textSearcher();
    searcher->setSearchTerm(text);
    searcher->markAll(controller->borderedTextRanges());
    controller->update();
}

[gamecreature]

This is a quick solution for, rendering special areas.
Perhaps for the future I need to support multiple ranges like these, with for example different rendering strategies..

[vadi2]

Perfect! Thanks so much :)