Itchyny wrote:
> The option 'incsearch' just jumps to the first matching place and
> highlights it.
> We then press enter, all the matches are get highlighted (if we set
> hlsearch on).
> If Vim highlights all the matching strings, it would be nice.
>
> There's already an implementation in Vim script
> (https://github.com/haya14busa/incsearch.vim).
> However, this plugin uses its own command-line like interface thus
> very limited and the code is too complicated.
>
> If this feature will be implemented with a small patch, it would be
> nice and I hope it merged.
>
> Here's a simple patch I wrote.
> I noticed that just removing the SEARCH_KEEP flag enables Vimt to
> highlight the
> matches while searching (search.c:L1149, ex_getln.c:L1795).
> Of course, as you notice, the following patch overwrites the default behavior
> and it must be fixed if the feature will be merged to Vim.
> Does anyone get interested in implementing the followings?
> - new option ('incsearchhlall' or something like that)to highlight
> all the matches
> while searching (disabled by default)
> - related documents and helps
We need different highlighting for the matches other than the one that
the cursor would jump to. If that's different enough then I don't think
we need yet-another-option. At least for me the search highlighting and
the incsearch match highlighting are very different.
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