In Vim, is there a way to enable on-the-fly highlighting for all matches when searching?
If I enable incsearch and type "/something" it will highlight the first match only. If I enable hlsearch and type "/something", nothing happens until I press enter (it only highlights the previous search).
In emacs the first match will be highlighted, and (after a slight delay) all other matches on the screen are highlighted in a different color, giving almost instant feedback when scanning for matches in a piece of code.
Doesn't answer your question, but maybe this Wikia post can help?
Quote from that post:
Put the following code in your vimrc, or create file ~/.vim/plugin/autohighlight.vim (Unix) or $HOME/vimfiles/plugin/autohighlight.vim (Windows) containing the script below. Then restart Vim.
To automatically highlight the current word, type
z/
. To turn off, typez/
again." 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()<Bar>set hls<Bar>endif<CR> 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\<'.escape(expand('<cword>'), '\').'\>' augroup end setl updatetime=500 echo 'Highlight current word: ON' return 1 endif endfunction
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