How to Fix “Mark Occurrences” in Eclipse?

Question

Eclipse is a great editor, and among it\'s many wonderful features one of my favorites is the Mark Occurrences feature. However, I recently installed the Aptana plug-in, and in

Answer 1

There is another way to toggle the Mark Occurrences feature (apart from Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Mark Occurrences)

Simply click the "Toggle Mark Occurrences" button from the toolbar. This can be seen in the image below. If you don't see the item in your bar you can turn on by selecting Window > Perspective > Customize Perspective... > Editor Presentation > Toggle Mark Occurrences

You can use a keyboard shortcut to toggle it, also:

• On Windows: Alt + Shift + O
• On OS X: Option + Command + O

Hope that helps

Answer 2

Check the following preference setting:

Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations

In here compare the settings for Occurrences and Write Occurrences.

You probably don't have the Text as higlighted option checked

Answer 3

If the option mentioned by laurie is checked and you're wondering why it isn't working, you might have hit Alt-Shift-O sometime:

Cannot highlight all occurrences of a selected word in Eclipse

Note, that "Organize Imports" has Ctrl-Shift-O...

Answer 4

Go

Java> Editor > Mark Occurrences

Uncheck "Keep Marks when the section changes" then click Ok

Restart Eclipse.

This work for me.

Answer 5

Double click on the class or the package in it disappears. Have no fear.

( I also activated this feature by mistake while pressing selecting a word)

Answer 6

and eclipse won't highlight occurences if your project contains errors check the Problems view to be sure you project is clean