Re: [gedit-list] Change color highlighting of search hits (Classic)

[Yves Forkl <Y Forkl srz de>]

Jesse and Guy, 

thank you for your valuable help.

Jesse wrote:

> The 'current' search hit is in fact simply a selection. So, to change
>  that color, you can add a style for 'selection' (see the cobalt
> theme for an example). This however will then of course also mean
> that when you select any other text it will be bright yellow, which
> is ok if you like that kind of thing :)

I precisely don't want ANY selection to be bright yellow, but just the current (and thus selected) search hit. (Modifying the appearance of non-current search matches is no problem using <style name="search-match" background="#DFDFDF"/>, e.g.)

If I understand right there is no named style in gedit that would refer to the currently selected search hit as opposed to the selection in general.

But there IS a difference in presentation: With the Classic theme, a selection generally shows in a background color which is a kind of bright orange (the color of a selection in any window having the focus, in Ubuntu 8.04 with default theme). While the search is active, gedit's main window does not have the focus, so the selection has a gray background color (#DCD4CC) instead.

So to change the background color of the current search hit, I obviously need to change the color of the selection in a *window without focus*.

How to do this?

Yves