vim-interestingwords

forked from vim-interestingwords and rewrite with lua

viminterestingwords.nvim highlights the occurrences of the word under the cursor throughout the buffer. Different words can be highlighted at the same time. The plugin also enables one to navigate through the highlighted words in the buffer just like one would through the results of a search.

Feature

Highlights multiple word in same time
Navigating word under cursor, n is forward, N is backword, no matter with / or ? search, and cursor will scrolling smoothly to center of screen
Show search count for under cursor word
Support lualine

Installation

With packer.nvim:

use 'Mr-LLLLL/interestingwords.nvim'

Usage

Highlight with <Leader>k or search with <Leader>m
Navigate highlighted words with n and N
Clear every word highlight with <Leader>K or search with <Leader>M throughout the buffer
Display search count with virtual text

Highlighting Words

<Leader>k will act as a toggle, so you can use it to highlight and remove the highlight from a given word. Note that you can highlight different words at the same time.

<Leader>m will act as a toggle, so you can use it to search and highlight or remove search from a given word. Note that you can search a words at the same time.

Navigating Highlights

With a highlighted word under your cursor, you can navigate through the occurrences of this word with n and N, and cursor always in center

Clearing (every) Highlight

Finally, if you don't want to toggle every single highlighted word and want to clear all of them, just hit <Leader>K, if you don't want to jump to search word, and cancel the search just hit <Leader>M

Configuration

The plugin comes with those default mapping, but you can change it as you like:

    require("interestingwords").setup {
        colors = { '#aeee00', '#ff0000', '#0000ff', '#b88823', '#ffa724', '#ff2c4b' },
        search_count = true,
        navigation = true,
        scroll_center = true,
        search_key = "<leader>m",
        cancel_search_key = "<leader>M",
        color_key = "<leader>k",
        cancel_color_key = "<leader>K",
    }

support lualine config, this is not default, you need to manual added

    require('lualine').setup{
        lualine_x = {
            ...
            {
                require("interestingwords").lualine_get,
                cond = require("interestingwords").lualine_has,
                color = { fg = "#ff9e64" },
            },
            ...
        }
    }

AngryMachine/interestingwords.nvim