Highlight all occurrence of a selected word

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How can I highlight all occurrence of a selected word in GVim  like in Notepad

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First  or in your  vimrc     set hlsearch   Then position your cursor over the word you want highlighted  and hit     hlsearch means highlight all occurrences of the current search  and   means search for the word under the cursor

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Search based solutions           move cursor  which may be unfortunate   An alternative is to use enhanced mark vim plugin  then complete your  vimrc to let double-click trigger highlighting  I don t know how a keyboard selection may trigger a command      Use Mark plugin to highlight selected word   map  lt 2-leftmouse gt   m      It allows multiple highlightings  persistence  etc   To remove highlighting  either     Double click again  Mark  switch off until next selection   MarkClear

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set hlsearch   maybe

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I know than it s a really old question  but if someone is interested in this feature  can check this code http   vim wikia com wiki Auto highlight current word when idle    Highlight all instances of word under cursor  when idle    Useful when studying strange source code    Type z  to toggle highlighting on off  nnoremap z   if AutoHighlightToggle   lt Bar gt set hls lt Bar gt endif lt CR gt  function  AutoHighlightToggle      let            if exists   auto highlight        au  auto highlight      augroup  auto highlight      setl updatetime 4000      echo  Highlight current word  off       return 0   else     augroup auto highlight     au      au CursorHold   let        V  lt   escape expand   lt cword gt             gt       augroup end     setl updatetime 500     echo  Highlight current word  ON    return 1  endif endfunction

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Why not just  z   That will highlight the current word under cursor and any other occurrences   And you don t have to give a separate command for each item you re searching for   Perhaps that s not available in the unholy gvim   It s in vim by default     is only good if you want the cursor to move to the next occurrence    When comparing two things visually you often don t want the cursor to move  and it s annoying to hit the   key every time

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to highlight word without moving cursor  plop    highlight reg  ex  in    register set hlsearch   remap         to search forwards backwards  resp     w o moving cursor nnoremap  lt silent gt     execute  normal   N  lt cr gt  nnoremap  lt silent gt     execute  normal   n  lt cr gt    into your vimrc   What s nice about this is g  and g  will still work like  normal    and       To set hlsearch off  you can use  short-form   unless you have another function that starts with  noh  in command mode    noh  Or you can use long version   nohlsearch  For extreme convenience  I find myself toggling hlsearch maybe 20 times per day   you can map something to toggle hlsearch like so     search highlight toggle nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt leader gt st  set hlsearch  lt cr gt        if your  lt leader gt  is    it is by default   you can press  st  quickly  in normal mode to toggle hlsearch   Or maybe you just want to have  noh mapped     search clear nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt leader gt sc  nohlsearch lt cr gt    The above simply runs  nohlsearch so  unlike  set hlsearch   it will still highlight word next time you press   or   in normal mode   cheers

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First ensure that hlsearch is enabled by issuing the following command   set hlsearch   You can also add this to your  vimrc file as set  set hlsearch   now when you use the quick search mechanism in command mode or a regular search command  all results will be highlighted  To move forward between results  press  n  to move backwards press  N   In normal mode  to perform a quick search for the word under the cursor and to jump to the next occurrence in one command press      you can also search for the word under the cursor and move to the previous occurrence by pressing      In normal mode  quick search can also be invoked with the   searchterm lt Enter gt    to remove highlights on ocuurences use  I have bound this to a shortcut in my  vimrc   nohl

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Enable search highlighting    set hlsearch   Then search for the word    word lt Enter gt

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Use autocmd CursorMoved   exe printf  match IncSearch   V  lt  s  gt     escape expand   lt cword gt             Make sure you have IncSearch set to something  e g call s Attr  IncSearch    reverse    Alternatively you can use another highlight group in its place   This will highlight all occurrences of words under your cursor without a delay  I find that a delay slows me down when I m wizzing through code  The highlight color will match the color of the word  so it stays consistent with your scheme

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My favorite for doing this is the mark vim plugin  It allows to highlight several words in different colors simultaneously   Example Screenshot

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The   key will highlight all occurrences of the word that is under the cursor

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For example this plugIns   https   github com rrethy vim-illuminate  https   github com itchyny vim-cursorword   Just search for under cursor in vimawesome com The key  as clagccs mentioned  is that the highlight does NOT conflict with your search  https   vim fandom com wiki Auto highlight current word when idle Screen-shot of how it does NOT conflict with search   Notes   vim-illuminate highlights by default  in my screen-shot I switched to underline vim-illuminate highlights underlines word under cursor by default  in my screen-shot I unset it my colorschemes are very grey-ish  Check yours to customize it too

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the simplest way  type in normal mode    I also have these mappings to enable and disable   highligh search enabled by default set hlsearch  now you can toggle it nnoremap  lt S-F11 gt   lt ESC gt  set hls  hls  lt cr gt  inoremap  lt S-F11 gt   lt C-o gt  set hls  hls  lt cr gt  vnoremap  lt S-F11 gt   lt ESC gt  set hls  hls  lt cr gt   lt bar gt  gv   Select word by clickin on it  set mouse a      Enables mouse click nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt 2-LeftMouse gt   let      V  lt   escape expand   lt cword gt             gt   lt cr gt  set hls lt cr gt    Bonus  CountWordFunction  fun  CountWordFunction       try         let l win view   winsaveview           let l old query   getreg              let var   expand   lt cword gt            exec   s     var      gn      finally         call winrestview l win view          call setreg      l old query      endtry endfun   Bellow we set a command  CountWord  and a mapping to count word   change as you like it command  -nargs 0 CountWord  call CountWordFunction   nnoremap  lt f3 gt   CountWord lt CR gt    Selecting word with mouse and counting occurrences at once  OBS  Notice that in this version we have  CountWord  command at the end  nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt 2-LeftMouse gt   let      V  lt   escape expand   lt cword gt             gt   lt cr gt  set hls lt cr gt  CountWord lt cr gt

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In Normal mode    set hlsearch   Then search for a pattern with the command   in Normal mode  or  lt Ctrl gt o followed by   in Insert mode    in Normal mode will search for the next occurrence of the word under the cursor  The hlsearch option will highlight all of them if set    will search for the previous occurrence of the word   To remove the highlight of the previous search    nohlsearch   You might wish to map  nohlsearch lt CR gt  to some convenient key

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Add those lines in your    vimrc file          highlight the searched items     set hlsearch       F8 search for word under the cursor recursively    copen   to close - gt   ccl     nnoremap  lt F8 gt   grep     lt  lt cword gt   gt     -r lt CR gt  copen 33 lt CR gt     Reload the settings with  so   In normal model go over the word   Press   Press F8 to search recursively bellow your whole project over the word

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