how to highlighting object property

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Franklee09
Franklee09 on 22 Mar 2019
Commented: Anton Lausbua on 1 Dec 2021
Is there any way to highlight properties in class definition. In the example below, if I select property1, the rest of the occurance of property 1 won't be highlighted. This could be useful when I have a very long class definition.
classdef TestObj < handle
properties
property1=100;
property2;
end
methods
function self = TestObj(value1)
self.property1=value1;
end
function fun2(self, value2)
self.property2=value2;
end
end
end
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Anton Lausbua
Anton Lausbua on 1 Dec 2021
@per isakson the answer also did not help me either. The highlighting does work only for local variables not for class properties. Is there another option to turn this on?

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Anant Upadhyay
Anant Upadhyay on 27 Mar 2019
Hi Yunarui,
According to my understanding, the requirement is that if a certain property of a class is selected, then the rest of the definitions of that property should be highlighted. MATLAB supports this feature for all version from MATLAB R2010b release.
The highlighting option can be set using following steps:
  • Select “preferences” in the “Home” Tab of your MATLAB editor.
  • Under “MATLAB” section in “preferences”, select “Colors” -> “Programming Tools”.
  • Check the option “Automatically highlight”, if unchecked.
  • Apply and Save the changes.
The highlighting does have some limitations. It will only find the matching names in code that are in scope. For instance, if you have pass a variable “x” to a subfunction as input argument “x”, the highlighting feature will only highlight the “x”s in either the main function or the subfunction, but not both. And, it won’t recognize that “x” in a comment or string passed to the eval function.

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