Have you considered Agent Ransack?

On 12 Feb 2007 08:18:46 -0800, data64@gmail.com wrote:

>"cmsix" <cmsix@hotmail.com> wrote in news:rZPrh.11687$ji1.7327
>@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net:
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>> I'm looking for a text editor that will find all instances of search
>> string in a document and highlight them all at the same time, so I can
>> scroll through the document and glance at them on the way by.
>>
>> Have any of you seen one like that?
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>Notepad++ seems to be able to do it. This is not its default
>behaviour, but
>in the Find dialog box, you can tell it to "style found token" to get
>the
>behaviour you are looking. It is open source and free.
>http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
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>> gVim will do it, but it has some "features" that make it less suitable
>> for my particular use. I'm not asking for a bunch of research, just
>> want to know if any of you have seen one that does this specific
>> thing.
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>So will Emacs.
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>Sorry for the delayed posting, I need to find a more reliable
>newserver
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>data64
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