Real Time Regex Highlighting

[vim]

The real gist is that I don't want to do a "search" (press or keyboard combo) each time I change the search text, I just want the selection/highlight to change as I type. If there was an event handler for the search text box similar to the on-change event handler in javascript for HTML inputs we could write a custom plug-in to handle the event. Since I'm new to Sublime I was unable to find anything in the API, perhaps one of you more familiar can point me in the right direction.

did you try ctrl+i instead of ctrl+f?

[AKWintermute]

That is pretty close to what I want thanks. Now if other all other occurrences were highlighted as well , just being picky. Is there a concept in sublime of a highlight vs a selection? Seems like a few of the topics talk about using highlight, but not wanting to make a selection. Seems like it would be used if it was available.

[vim]

regarding highlighting, this was much discussed and requested by us - the users, there have been some progress on latest beta, with experimental API, i have posted on another topic, but you can try this:

http://pastie.org/private/cggy1ihxlpvpwnwmv3b0qa

and add the following key binding:

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   <binding key="ctrl+shift+keypad_multiply" command="stickySearch set" />
   <binding key="ctrl+shift+keypad_plus" command="stickySearch add" />
   <binding key="ctrl+shift+keypad_minus" command="stickySearch clear" />

To set the highlight color, add to your theme file the following:

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      <dict>
         <key>name</key>
         <string>Marker</string>
         <key>scope</key>
         <string>marker</string>
         <key>settings</key>
         <dict>
            <key>fontStyle</key>
            <string></string>
            <key>foreground</key>
            <string>#FFFF77</string>
         </dict>
      </dict>

it should be added inside the scope of:

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<dict>
   <key>name</key>
   <string>Basic</string>
   <key>settings</key>
   <array>

[myel]

this is one of the things why i have not switched from e to sublime yet...

[myel]

this works in the latest beta.