additional options for editor.selectionHighlight

[vogler]

• VSCode Version: 1.2.1
• OS Version: OS X 10.11.4

Having the current word highlighted is convenient, but too distracting when moving around and accidentally leaving the cursor on a keyword (e.g. let .. in in OCaml).
Turning it off, one has to fall back to search and lose the previous results.

Maybe it would make sense to introduce options to:

1. only highlight if a whole word is selected (i.e. e.g. with a double click)
2. only highlight non-keyword words
3. only highlight identifiers

[Bill-Stewart]

+1 - I like selected matches to be highlighted, but I would like to be able to disable automatic keyword highlighting.

[andreagualandi]

+1

[pietrovismara]

+1

[cheoAlejo]

+1

[Densaugeo]

+1

[gaoliang]

+1

[AndiDog]

In this code

let foo = foobar + bazboom;

selecting "foo" will lead to two highlights. I'd like to be able to configure editor.selectionHighlight to only highlight matches on word boundary i.e. search for \bfoo\b to not highlight foobar in the above.

[mattiacoppini]

+1

[a7madgamal]

can we add selecting across open tabs?
If not I can open a ticket for it

[blacktop]

+1

[internetlee]

+1 needed to disable this because highlighting all matches of a single character is just too distracting to justify having it on for the useful cases

[spajak]

+1

[bkuri]

Please also consider adding an option to only select exact matches (ie case-sensitive) when double-clicking.

Another worthwile setting (related to @leegenes' above comment) would be to skip highliting on items with less than n characters.