[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Removing highlighting of text

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Eicher wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Delete the search results in the search view, and the markers are gone...
Or choose not to show Search results as highlighted in the text (See 
'Annotations' pref page).

Dani
> -tom
>
> Brian Vosburgh wrote:
> > David Wegener wrote:
> > > Thomas Wiedmann wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > when a text in Java file of the Java view is selected 
> > > > (highlighted), all the same variables in the code are highlighted, 
> > > > too.
> > > > When search - e. g. for references - was carried out, all matches 
> > > > of this search are highlighted, too.
> > > > So far well. But there are circumstances, where the highlighting 
> > > > disturbs.
> > > > How can the highlighting of text be removed? Pressing [Esc] or 
> > > > clicking somewhere didn't help.
> > > > Currently I use Eclipse 3.3.2.
> > > >
> > > > Thomas Wiedmann
> > > This is refered to as Mark Occurrences.  You can toggle it from the 
> > > tool bar by clicking on the icon that looks like the tip of a 
> > > highlight marker.  It is also mapped by Shift-Alt-o.
> >
> > That removes the highlighting of the items in the text that match 
> > whatever
> > your cursor is sitting on. But, is there any way to also remove the 
> > highlights
> > that indicate Search Results or a line of code on the debug execution 
> > stack?
> > Shift-Alt-O toggles only the "occurrences".
> >
> > Thanks.