Vim-cool disables search highlighting when you are done searching and re-enables it when you search again. That's it. No more :noh<CR>
, no more /sytdstdrsid<CR>
, and no more dodgy <C-l>
mappings.
Vim-cool is cool.
Vim-cool is experimental.
Vim-cool is intended to be used with Vim, and only Vim, 7.4.2008 or later. It may or may not work in other editors but they are not and will not be officially supported.
Follow your favorite plugin/runtimepath manager's instructions.
If you choose manual installation, just put plugin/cool.vim
where it belongs:
$HOME/.vim/plugin/cool.vim on Unix-like systems
$HOME\vimfiles\plugin\cool.vim on Windows
In Vim 8.0 and above, see :help package
.
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Show number of matches in the command-line:
let g:cool_total_matches = 1
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Do something when we are doing
nnnNNnn
, do something else or do nothing when we are not:set statusline+=%{get(g:,'cool_is_searching',0)?'Yep':''}
I wrote the first iteration of vim-cool in about twenty minutes, mostly to test a few ideas I had after a short discussion about 'hlsearch'
and :nohlsearch
on #vim.
Because it relied almost exclusively on mappings, that first iteration was way too brittle to be of any use and actually messed with a bunch of my own mappings.
Then came @purpleP and the game-changing approach he put together with the help of @chrisbra, @justinmk, @jamessan, and @ZyX-I.
The current version, essentially a weaponized version of @purpleP's code, doesn't rely on mappings anymore and thus should be devoid of nasty side-effects.
Many thanks to @bounceme for his help.
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puremourning, in #vim:
vim-cool is by far my favourite plugin
it's just so... cool.