IntelliJ: How to auto-highlight variables like in Eclipse

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My employer wants me to use IntelliJ for Java development. Previously, I've always used eclipse.

One of my favorite features in eclipse was being able to click on a variable, method parameter, class field, etc and see the usage of those variables highlighted throughout the class.

Is there a way to enable this feature in IntelliJ IDEA? I'm using Ultimate version 9.0.3.

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4 Answers

Even though this is a question on how to highlight all variables, point one and two will answer that meanwhile point 3 will make you more productive and rename all variables simultaneously if you so choose to do so.

  1. With your cursor on an occurence.
  2. Do Ctrl+Shift+F7 to select all other occurrences.
  3. Then Shift + F6 to rename all occurences simultaneously.
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