Re: Can you turn off automatic text highlighting based on selection in Kate?

I just installed it via yum, which installed version 3.14.8, which looks
rather old.  I'll do a build and see what happens.  Thanks!

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 7:28 AM Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 2020-05-07 18:55, joe vallino wrote:
> > Is there any way to turn off the feature that highlights text based on
> > current selection?  This feature fails when using large text files
> > (100's MB), because it can take several seconds to select text, as you
> > must wait for Kate to search the document looking for matches to the
> > selection. This renders Kate ineffective for editing large files.
>
> Hi,
>
> I think there is no such option at the moment.
>
> I actually thought we limit that search to the visible range, thought,
> which should be "ok" even for large documents.
>
> Which version are you using?
>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -joe
>
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