Highlighting FOUND text in RStudio editor

[rdr]

Really enjoy working with RStudio save for one annoyance: Is there a way to customize the color of found text (the result of a Find operation) in the editor?

I use a dark theme generally and find it really hard to discern the result of a find operation quickly. Ideally, the result would be backed in yellow or white or something to make it immediately obvious.

I know this was asked a couple years ago but didn't see if perhaps something's changed that I've missed. Thanks for any help.

-- Robert

[brian.law]

Hello Robert,

I've had the same question and came across this solution that Mara links to in the answers. I've not tried it myself yet but hope this helps.

Feature req: word background highlight color in find and spellcheck

As RStudio's support for rmarkdown and rnotebooks has grown, many users are increasingly using it as their main program for authoring technical and quantitative reports, or even scientific articles. As this happens, the document pane is increasing full of narrative text. I have found that when I am authoring reports and I search for a word or phrase using the find facility, or when I use the built-in spell checker, I have to hunt for the word on the visible portion of text even after RStudio has jumped to the relevant section of the text. My feature request is small and simple: change the color of the background of the highlighted word in find and spell check. Instead of using light grey, …

-Brian

[rdr]

Thank you, Brian. That looks as though it should do the trick. Will dig in tomorrow.

— Robert