Find Highlighting

[naveed]

I am evaluating Sublime and like it so far. I’m coming from Scite. I like the Find Highlight feature, but the highlight only draws a frame, which for me is hardly a highlight. Is there a way to add a background color? Also, is there a way to do multi-line searches?

[adzenith]

ctrl+enter will insert a newline into the find panel.

[williams]

Also, if regex mode is on, you can use \n and other character classes as well

[knitatoms]

Is there a way to add a background color?

Not as far as I know - I’ve made a feature request for this here:

For X: improve matching and find highlighting

This has come up a few times but is something I'd really love to have in X: I often find it hard to see the selected / highlighted result when I do a find. The colour is not different enough. In dark themes such as Monokai and Sunburst (my favorite because of its Markdown highlighting) it would be great if the highlighted block could be pure white background with black text. (The 'outlines' for the remaining 'found' search items are fine.) Similarly, as discussed here: It would be gr…

You might like to add support there