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I'm working on a project that has now become complex enough to require navigational help from the IDE. In particular, I need highlighting of the occurrences of variables.

However, I can press the Toggle Mark Occurrences as many times as I want, PDT won't give me that useful functionality on anything, be it variables or functions. According to this (old) question, everything that is needed for that feature to work is correctly configured:

  • In the preferences (General > Appearance > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations), all annotations types related to "Occurrences" or "PHP" have Overview ruler checked and Text as also checked, with a color set.
  • In PHP > Editor > Mark Occurrences, every checkbox is checked.

This happens to me both in Neon.3 and in Mars.2: I'm not getting occurrences highlighted in PDT. JDT (Java) works as it should. CDT (tested on C++ code) works too.

Are there additional configuration options that evaded me?

Or is this a bug? I've searched the official Bugzilla and it seems that the highlighting of occurrences has been a recurring regression in Eclipse. It doesn't work either in JSDT (but that's a different issue because JSDT is undergoing an overhaul that caused a slew of regressions).

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The same thing happened to me (sometimes still happens to me) but it improved significantly by adding more memory to my computer. It seems to be a functionality that due to the particularities of the php language requires many resources to be computed. I hope my experience will help you.

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