A simple vim and neovim plugin that does what the title says: highlights the match currently under the cursor with a unique colour to differentiate it from all the other search-highlighted matches. This is convenient for easily identifying the current match when quickly jumping amongst many. In the GIF below, the current match is highlighted in the default red colour.
The plugin plays nicely with all search commands (/, ?, n, N, *, #) and the
ignorecase and smartcase options.
Can be installed with the vim plugin manager of your choice. For example, if
you use plug, add
Plug 'https://github.com/adamheins/vim-highlight-match-under-cursor'
to your .vimrc (vim) or init.vim (neovim).
You can change the highlight style for the match under the cursor by setting the variable
g:HighlightMatchUnderCursor#highlight_args
in your .vimrc or init.vim, which takes standard highlight arguments as a
string (see :h highlight-args). The default value is 'ctermbg=88 cterm=NONE'. I personally like to set this to be the same as :hi IncSearch.
The highlighting is updated whenever the cursor is moved, and only appears
when search highlighting is active (i.e., when v:hlsearch is true). If you
want to clear the highlight without moving the cursor, you can use
:call HighlightMatchUnderCursor#matchdelete()
MIT—see the LICENSE file.