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The search command Highlight Usages in File (Ctrl+Shift+F7Ctrl+Shift+F7Ctrl+Shift+7Ctrl+Shift+F7Ctrl+Shift+F7Ctrl+Shift+F7Ctrl+Shift+F7Alt+Shift+O or Ctrl+Shift+F7Meta Shift F7Meta Shift F7Meta Shift F7) makes it possible to visualize usages of a symbol in the current file. All found usages of a symbol in the current file are highlighted and color-coded, as defined in the Colors and Fonts dialog box, to represent read or write access to the symbol. In addition to the highlights of occurrences in text, the stripes of the same colors appear in the marker bar, accompanied with tooltips.

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The behavior of usage highlighting is configurable: you can make PhpStorm show usages of a symbol at caret automatically, or invoke it with a command.

This section describes how to:

To configure highlight usages behavior
  1. Open Settings dialog.
  2. In the Editor page of the IDE Settings, select the check box Highlight usages of element at caret to enable usage highlighting.
To highlight usages of a symbol in the current file
  1. Place the caret at the selected symbol in the editor. If automatic usages highlighting is enabled, see all its occurrences in the current file highlighted. Otherwise, proceed to the next step.
  2. On the main menu, choose Edit | Find | Highlight Usages in File, or press Ctrl+Shift+F7Ctrl+Shift+F7Ctrl+Shift+7Ctrl+Shift+F7Ctrl+Shift+F7Ctrl+Shift+F7Ctrl+Shift+F7Alt+Shift+O or Ctrl+Shift+F7Meta Shift F7Meta Shift F7Meta Shift F7.
To navigate among usages, do one of the following
  • Click on a stripe in the marker bar to navigate to the respective usage location.
  • Use F3 or Ctrl+LF3 or Ctrl+LF3 or Ctrl+LF3 or Ctrl+LF3 or Alt+SF3F3 or Ctrl+LCtrl+KF3 or Control LF3 or Control LMeta K and Shift+F3 or Ctrl+Shift+LShift+F3 or Ctrl+Shift+LShift+F3 or Ctrl+Shift+LShift+F3 or Ctrl+Shift+LShift+F3, Alt+R or Ctrl+RShift+F3Shift+F3 or Ctrl+Shift+LCtrl+Shift+KShift F3 or Control Shift LShift F3 or Control Shift LMeta Shift K keyboard shortcuts, to navigate to the next and previous usages respectively.
To remove highlighting of usages
  • Press EscapeEscapeEscapeEscapeEscape, Escape or Ctrl+GEscapeEscapeEscapeEscapeEscapeEscape.

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