Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· laplacesdemon

Highlight occurrences of a word in Vim

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Pretty simple, just hit * when you're on a word in normal mode. Vim will highlight all the occurrences.

In addition, make sure that :set hlsearch is set.

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Written by Suleyman Melikoglu

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gahtune

And followed by # to come back to the word you where on.
then you can map *# to something to say higlight the occurences.

over 1 year ago ·
lordmonkey

Thanks for :set hlsearch

@gahtune awesome hint about #

over 1 year ago ·

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