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highlight.vim : Highlight lines or patterns of interest in different colors

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created by
Amit Sethi
 
script type
utility
 
description
   Line mode
     <C-h><C-h>   Highlight current line
     <C-h><C-a>   Advance color for next line highlight
     <C-h><C-r>   Clear last line highlight

   Pattern mode
     <C-h><C-w>   Highlight word under cursor (whole word match)
     <C-h><C-l>    Highlight all lines having word under cursor (whole word match)
     <C-h><C-f>    Highlight word under cursor (partial word match)
     <C-h><C-k>   Highlight all lines having word under cursor (partial word match)
     <C-h><C-s>   Highlight last search pattern
     <C-h><C-j>    Highlight all lines having last search pattern
     <C-h><C-d>   Clear last pattern highlight

     <C-h><C-n>   Clear all highlights

   All above commands work in both normal & insert modes.
   <C-h><C-h> also works in visual mode. (Select desired lines & hit <C-h><C-h>)

 
install details
Copy highlight.vim to your .vim/plugin directory
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
highlight.vim 1.6 2011-04-12 6.0 Amit Sethi Changes to make it work with Console Vim (contributed by Min Kyu Jeong (mkjeong@gmail.com))
highlight.vim 1.5 2010-09-09 6.0 Amit Sethi Added new hightlight mode:

"     <C-h><C-j>   Highlight all lines having last search pattern
highlight.vim 1.4 2009-11-19 6.0 Amit Sethi Changed Pattern modes. These are now as follows -

"   Pattern mode
"     <C-h><C-w>   Highlight word under cursor (whole word match)
"     <C-h><C-l>   Highlight all lines having word under cursor (whole word match)
"     <C-h><C-f>   Highlight word under cursor (partial word match)
"     <C-h><C-k>   Highlight all lines having word under cursor (partial word match)
"     <C-h><C-s>   Highlight last search pattern
"     <C-h><C-d>   Clear last pattern highlight
"
highlight.vim 1.1 2006-07-28 6.0 Amit Sethi Modified implementation of word highlight to override comments, etc.
highlight.vim 1.0 2006-07-05 6.0 Amit Sethi Initial upload
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