how to toggle searchhi?

[andykais]

The docs mention

It can also be toggled with custom autocommands.

but they do not show how. Could you share the recipe for a toggle? So far I can have

nmap <Space> <Plug>(searchhi-clear-all)

which is admittedly not much 😅. I was spoiled w/ vim-searchant's

nmap <Space> <Plug>SearchantToggle

[qxxxb]

I can't think of a very clean way to implement this right now, but here is a temporary solution

nmap <expr> <C-L> g:searchhi_status == 'listen' ? '<Plug>(searchhi-clear-all)' : '<Plug>(searchhi-n)'
vmap <expr> <C-L> g:searchhi_status == 'listen' ? '<Plug>(searchhi-v-clear-all)' : '<Plug>(searchhi-v-n)'

[andykais]

is it possible to just store state myself inside of my init.lua file? I could easily write my own function for it if I knew how to set/get a stateful boolean variable

[qxxxb]

What do you mean by state?

[andykais]

I mean a variable that can track whether the search has been toggled on or off. I guess I was thinking of something like this:

local search_highlight_enabled = false
function toggle_search_highlight()
  if search_highlight_enabled
  then
    -- clear all (from a function?)
    search_highlight_enabled = false
  else
    -- show all (from a function?)
    search_highlight_enabled = true
  end
end
util.map('n', '<Space>', 'lua: toggle_search_highlight()<CR>', { noremap = false })

but I just tried your workaround. I see that state is already tracked w/ g:searchhi_status 'listen' value. The issue is that toggling search back on always moves to the "next" search result

[qxxxb]

The issue is that toggling search back on always moves to the "next" search result

Yeah that's the tricky part - I'll try to find a solution to this soon

[qxxxb]

Oh I think this works

nmap <expr> <C-L> g:searchhi_status == 'listen' ? '<Plug>(searchhi-clear-all)' : ':<C-U>set hlsearch<CR><Plug>(searchhi-update)'
vmap <expr> <C-L> g:searchhi_status == 'listen' ? '<Plug>(searchhi-v-clear-all)' : ':<C-U>set hlsearch<CR><Plug>(searchhi-v-update)'