R – Lightweight editor for Mac that highlights all occurrences of a word

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My question is similar to this one: How to highlight all occurrences of a word in an Emacs buffer

In Notepad++ editor, there's a convenient feature: if you select a word in your text (not necessarily a keyword), the word is highlighted throughout the text. Is there any similar way in a lightweight editor for Mac? I've tried Textwrangler and jedit, but they don't seem to have this very useful feature.

Best Answer

Thanks for all the tips. I've tried out the various alternatives and ended up finding that jEdit has a good plugin for this feature: The "Highlight (Buffer scope)" option in the "Highlight" plugi