Since the text search highlights the text it's actually pretty easy to search for text in long texts in the little scroll bar. Though I have the small gripe of not being able to see small texts in there along with all the text.
While it's easy to see a long text like "Hello, I'm a long sentence made for an example's sake." it's really hard to see something like "Hi!" when the text is long enough.
Right now I have several 6000+ lines of code and I really need to see specific magic numbers in them like "24" or "16" but it's almost impossible to tell from the little scroll bar, so I have to go between them by actually searching for them. This has the huge disadvantage of missing some relevant code in between.
Anyway, like I said, I'd like to be able to see the line and the text highlighted separately if possible. If not, I'll settle on highlighting just the line.
Notes:
This is different to this question which asks for a way to filter lines. I want to see the lines better but not take them out of the text I'm currently reading.
I really don't mind whether I need to use version 2 or version 3 of sublime text for this. I'll use whichever version I need to or adapt the method to the version I'm already using.
I don't want to select the lines, I want to see them as searches so long as the little search window at the bottom is open. I need to be able to do edits as I see fit for any lines around the searched line not just the line itself.