Enable highlighting on selected words in all panes in SublimeText 3 - sublimetext3

If I select a word in one pane, this word doesn't highlight in other.
How can I make highlighting in both panes?

I don't think it's possible using ST out of the box.
BUT, I'm pretty sure using the SublimeText Plugin API you can write a custom plugin to achieve this.
Have not seen any plugin that can do this till now.

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Sublime Text: Enable search highlighting for large files

I have a file that I refer to routinely (it consists of timestamps), and I use Sublime Text to edit it. Normally, when I search for a token in Sublime (Command-F), all instances of the token are also highlighted.
However, the file recently went above 30,000 lines, and this seems to be a threshold for Sublime to automatically disable search highlighting.
Is there a way to re-enable search highlighting in Sublime?
This has been recently resolved.
Build 4114 adds the following options in the Sublime Preferences to make these kind of options configurable
find_scroll_highlights_limit
find_highlight_matches_max_size
find_regex_highlight_matches_max_size
find_in_files_max_result_size

How to display a text file (.txt) as a code file with color in Sublime Text 3

I'm using sublime text 3. And I want to display a text with color like a code file in Sublime. But I don't know how to do. Please help me!.
Thanks you!
You can manually set the syntax of any file using the Command Palette and type "Set Syntax: " or from the bottom right dialog (by default it reads "Plain Text").
If you want Sublime Text to remember your choice, you can also do that from the syntax selection dialog mentioned above, or View > Syntax > Open all with current extension as…".
I think if you need your text file for purposes like note taking, there is a nice hack.
Go to View > Syntax and then select haskell. Haskell syntax highlighting is subtle and works fine. To highlight something just capitalise the first letter and it pops in a different colour. Numbers are highlighted in a different colour again, increasing readability. Finally brackets commas etc have different colour which further helps.
Well, coloring is based on the syntax, like every programming language has its syntax, but the pure text file is hard to detect the syntax since it can be anything. So if you use the Sublime to coding,try save it as a file with file extension first, then the Sublime will detect by itself, however you could also do this manually.
The ability to create your own syntax highlighting rules is one of the excellent features of SublimeText.
Have a look here at some other people wanting to build their own syntax highlighting rules:
How to not highlight object keys such as 'do'/'package' as keywords in Sublime?
Sublime Text - C++ Highlight
That explains the basic tools you need to use to do what you want to do.
Following the same ideas there you can build a syntax highlighting scheme for whatever it is you want to achieve in your text file based on whatever syntax rules you are trying to follow. Hard to imagine what those are for a text file without you supplying exact details but if you want to do it Sublime Text gives you the power to do it.
If you give that a try and have trouble with developing the relevant Regular Expression/s to do what you want to do then post what you have done and how it is not working the way you hoped and perhaps we can help you get to the end of the game.

Creating custom search button in Notepad++

I am looking for a way to create custom buttons for Notepad++. So far I haven't been able to find solutions regarding this.
The buttons would be doing a regular expression search and highlight the search results as well. This would make it much easier for me to analyze error logs. This would eliminate the need of copy/pasting the long regex search queries.
I'm trying to use the Customize Toolbar plugin to accomplish this, but I couldn't find a thorough documentation of it and therefore having troubles.
Any help would be appreciated.
There you go:
Download "Customize Toolbar" from the "Plugin Manager"
Go to menu "Plugins" > "Customize Toolbar" and select "Custom Buttons"
Restart Notepad++
Now it's the important part, where you need to create the button's functionality. In your case you want to simply search and fortunately this can be implemented in a Macro. If you need something more complex that can't be recorded in a Macro, consider the use of "Python Script" plugin (which is really easy even with a minimal knowledge of Python) or writing your own plugin (which I guess is more difficult, I never tried to). So, let us assume that you recorded a Macro and you named it "test".
Find and open the file %APPDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\config\CustomizeToolbar.btn
Add the following new row in the file:
Macro,test,,,
That's all. You now have a new button in your toolbar that runs your macro.

GUI text editor with syntax highlighting + background text highlighting

Looking for a GUI based text editor that has syntax highlighting for some of the more commonly used languages, plus manual text backround highlighting. Like you can permanently highlight selections of text, not just 'current line highlighting' or changing the default background color for 'currently selected' text. I thought notepad++ had this, but I haven't been able to tell how to access it if so.
I've only been able to find editors that do one or the other so far. Mostly just want this for studying purposes.
Have a look at AvalonEdit from the SharpDevelop project. Might be what you're looking for. Or at least a good basis to develop your own.

Better Tab Navigation in gVim

How can I get tabs in gVim to work like they do in most good IDEs? I say gVim specifically because that is the version of Vim that I use but I am open to alternatives.
I want the following things for my tabs:
Ctrl+Tab goes to the MRU (most recently used) tab.
Holding down Ctrl and then pressing Tab multiple times continues to change to the next most recently used tab every time you press Tab.
When ctags are built and working and you press Ctrl+], if this takes you to a different file it should open that file in a new tab or if a tab with that file is already open it should switch to that one.
Easy tab reordering with the mouse just by dragging them around.
I am posting all these as a single question because I am hoping there is a good single solution that will do all or most of these things instead of having to hack each customization in individually. I would think this would be the preferred behavior by most of us.
Vim has no built in MRU. There is at least one plugin for that, though, but I've never used it.
The tabs in Vim are not the same as the tabs in your IDE, they are more like perspectives. The equivalent of your IDE's tabs in Vim are buffers and "(split)windows". There are a number of ways to work with buffers including some native ones and a number of third party plugins. Some of these plugins have MRU-like features.
The Vim wiki has a bunch of pages about tabs.

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