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How to highlight variables in sublime?

How to highlight variables in sublime text 3? like in netbeans

Netbeans

Sublime text 3

Solution

  • Your question is not very clear, but here are some options. First, if you're just trying to get variables highlighted differently, you'll need a color scheme with more options than the default Monokai. There are many available on Package Control, but one in particular that I know will work (since I'm its author) is Neon:

    Neon

    You can use the excellent tmTheme Editor to see how this or hundreds of other themes will look (sort of) in different languages. (I say "sort of" because the highlighting engine used on the website is different than the one in Sublime, so there will be some differences. Overall it's pretty good, though.)

    On the other hand, if you're trying to highlight all the instances of the $page variable, you'll have to do two things. First, double-click on $page to select it. Then, select Find -> Quick Find All (or use its keyboard shortcut) to select all the instances of $page in the document:

    Quick Find All - PHP

    The gutter icons and colored underlines are from the BracketHighlighter plugin

    Unfortunately, this is the only way to get this to work when using PHP and other languages like JavaScript that denote variables with a $ or other symbol. If we were to use Python, for example, you could just double-click on page and it would look like so:

    Python

    As you can see, all the other instances of page have boxes around them. This behavior is hard-coded into Sublime, so while it can be turned on and off, it can't be modified or told to recognize other characters in any way.

    Good luck!