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gnu screen - how to highlight searched text

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Mar 15, 20261051 views

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While doing a reverse text search via " C-a[? search_string", I have to keep pressing 'n' to figure out occurrences of 'search_string'. Is there a configuration in GNU screen that can hihglight searched text, something similar to vim's ":set hlsearch" ?

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Unfortunately, there's no such option in screen, because it only searches for the next occurence but not for every occurence of your search string.

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