Highlighting a search term without moving the cursor
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Mar 15, 20266747 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Using Vim, I sometimes find myself staring at a section of source code for a while and suddenly want some variable on the screen to pop out. That's easy: which highlights them all. My issue is that it more often than not the search shifts my window so I'm not looking at the source code from the sam…
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Fix for: Highlighting a search term without moving the cursor
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skyblue’s answer shows the core of the idea of how to use the normal search highlighting to accomplish what you want. I extended that technique by making a keybinding that works similarly to the command, but without actually moving to the next match…
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