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I am checking a log file using vim. There's only one word can be highlighted, when I search another word,the second word is highlighted but the previous one is not highlighted anymore.
Can anyone show me a way that easily highlight/cancel highlight multiple words in vim? For example, I want to highlight words "stack", "over" and "flow", then I want to cancel the highlight of "stack" and highlight another word "error". So that I can analyze the log more efficiently. Thanks.
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The hlsearch option will highlight all of them if set. # will search for the previous occurrence of the word. You might wish to map :nohlsearch<CR> to some convenient key. But you can go back to the position where you pressed * or # by <Ctrl>o in normal mode.
To find a character string, type / followed by the string you want to search for, and then press Return. vi positions the cursor at the next occurrence of the string. For example, to find the string “meta,” type /meta followed by Return. Type n to go to the next occurrence of the string.
After opening login.sh file in vim editor, press ESC key and type ':syntax on' to enable syntax highlighting. The file will look like the following image if syntax highlighting is on. Press ESC key and type, “syntax off” to disable syntax highlighting.
Change and repeat Search for text using / or for a word using * . In normal mode, type cgn (change the next search hit) then immediately type the replacement. Press Esc to finish. From normal mode, search for the next occurrence that you want to replace ( n ) and press . to repeat the last change.
There are two simple ways to highlight multiple words in vim editor.
Basically the first way puts you in the regular expression mode so that you do not need to put any extra back slashes before every pipe or other delimiters used for searching.
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/\v\/folder|\/copy - search for \folder and \copy
and add to .vimrc set hlsearch
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