On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 8:40:46 AM UTC-6, Jan wrote: > Is it possible to have the searched for string highlighted in the quickfix > and location list buffers, just as grep's --colour does? It can be confusing > when the results of a search contain long lines, and I just want to skim the > results with my eyes, rather than manually visit each result to see where the > string matched. > > When searching for this, I only get results for highlighting each error line > in the main buffer, which isn't what I want.
Search for the string you used in the grep command, or use :match. There's no automatic way. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
