On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Hoss wrote: > Esteemed Vim Users, > > One of the useful key combinations in vim is shift+asterisk, which > will locate the word your cursor is "on", and put that word into your > "/ buffer (surrounded by \<\> word boundaries). This has the effect of > highlighting all occurrences of that word. > > It also has the effect of jumping the cursor to the next instance of > that word in your buffer. > > Is there an analogous key combination, that will highlight the current > word, WITHOUT moving my cursor?
Fun: :nmap A :call setreg('/','\<'.expand('<lt>cword>').'\>')<CR> Replace 'A' with whatever key(s) you want to map it to. That sets the search register to start-of-word + the current word + end-of-word without actually performing the search. The search doesn't show up in the search history (q/), though. The much-simpler: :nmap A *<C-O> will perform a star search (ha), and then go back to the prior position. Has the advantage of putting it in the search history but (IMO, significantly-worse) disadvantage of moving the cursor if the next match is off-screen. See: :help key-mapping :help :nmap :help expand() :help map.txt | /<lt> -- for why I used '<lt>' in the mapping :help :<cword> -- Best, Ben -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php