Vector35 / Vector35/binaryninja-api
Jump to next highlight.
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Description
What is the feature you'd like to have?
To be able to navigate to the next highlighted item by key binding.
Is your feature request related to a problem?
No, but I think many people would like to have it.
Additional Information:
When we click on a variable name it gets highlighted. Expose a keybinding to make screen view jump to the next highlight (or previous) just as it would when we double click some address. Other RE tools already have it implemented.
The ideal solution would be to be able to jump to any selected text. For example, select text rax + 0x10 in disassembly (or other views) and be able to jump to the next/previous occurrence of it.
The highlighting itself could also be a little tweaked. Currently the highlight only occurs when we click something and not when we drag and select some text.
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- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing how the screen view handles clicked and selected text highlights, then find the existing keybinding and address-jump behavior mentioned in the issue. Define how next/previous navigation should work for highlighted variables and selected expressions, including highlighting from drag selection, and verify the behavior across the affected views.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100