From f09e849c960d9b9b2f22f141c98f1cf75f537b19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Schulz <david.schulz@nokia.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:52:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Highlighting single characters

only if you're searching for whole words

Task-number: QTCREATORBUG-6372
Change-Id: I10700258cacdc5af52554824a971041d6a1c2b22
Reviewed-by: Leandro Melo <leandro.melo@nokia.com>
---
 src/plugins/texteditor/basetexteditor.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/plugins/texteditor/basetexteditor.cpp b/src/plugins/texteditor/basetexteditor.cpp
index 90d29a65276..3c1895f1759 100644
--- a/src/plugins/texteditor/basetexteditor.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/texteditor/basetexteditor.cpp
@@ -4850,8 +4850,9 @@ void BaseTextEditorWidget::markBlocksAsChanged(QList<int> blockNumbers)
 void BaseTextEditorWidget::highlightSearchResults(const QString &txt, Find::FindFlags findFlags)
 {
     QString pattern = txt;
-    if (pattern.size() < 2)
-        pattern.clear(); // highlighting single characters is a bit pointless
+    // highlighting single characters only if you're searching for whole words
+    if (pattern.size() < 2 && !(findFlags & Find::FindWholeWords))
+        pattern.clear();
 
     if (d->m_searchExpr.pattern() == pattern)
         return;