Code Editor 2: Highlight selection matches - highlight if selection is at least one character, or only whole tokens

[gnysek]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

There's setting named Highlight selection matches in CE2. However, now it highlight anything that matches not only any selection (from 1 character up), but also 0 characters - where cursor is.

This makes too many highlights IMO, especially when nothing is selected, or when one character is selected (try selecting just a and there will be tons of highlights in code).

Describe the solution you'd like

What I noticed is that putting cursor over var, if and other keywords, doesn't match matching selections, and it happens only for functions and variables. Seems that this system is able to differentiate token type.

Solution A:

• highlight matches only if whole word is selected. So, for var abcd putting cursor, or only selecting abs will not highlight matching results yet.

Solution B (less proffered, but probably faster to implement):

• highlight matches only if selection length > 0. So, just putting cursor over any word, doesn't yet highlight anything, making code more readable and causing less blinking.

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Additional context

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[KormexGit]

Agreed, the current selection match color is really bright so your code is getting lit up like a christmas tree just from moving your cursor around, and it's causing bugs like #9237 too

[PrismaticRealms]

Yes, I don't think that Highlight Selection Matches should highlight anything if no text is selected.