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 trying to configure it I somehow managed to break Mark Occurrences in my Eclipse installation.

The feature still works somewhat, but instead of highlighting all occurrences of a given object, it now only highlights the occurrence where it is first created. In other words, in:

1. Dog dog = new Dog(); 2. dog.bark(); 3. dog.bark(); 

Only the "dog" in line 1 would be highlighted, not the "dog" in 2 or 3.

However, before I know I had things configured such that all three "dog" references would be highlighted by Eclipse. Does anyone know what configuration option I changed to "break" the marking of occurrences like this?

Answer 1

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 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