https://github.com/vim-scripts/MultipleSearch

Highlight multiple searches at the same time, each with a different color.
https://github.com/vim-scripts/MultipleSearch

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Highlight multiple searches at the same time, each with a different color.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vim-scripts/MultipleSearch
• Owner: vim-scripts
• Created: 2010-10-18T16:47:45.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-10-18T16:47:50.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T17:41:29.580Z (3 months ago)
• Language: VimL
• Homepage: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=479
• Size: 97.7 KB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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This is a mirror of http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=479

MultipleSearch allows you to have the results of multiple searches displayed

on the screen at the same time.  Each search highlights its results in a

different color, and all searches are displayed at once.  After the maximum

number of colors is used, the script starts over with the first color.

 

The command syntax is: 

:Search  

which will highlight all occurrences of  in the current buffer.  A

subsequent :Search  will highlight all occurrences of 

in the current buffer, retaining the highlighting of  as well.

 and  are any search pattern like you would use in a

normal / search.

The :Search command honors Vim's 'ignorecase' and 'smartcase' settings for

its own search.  You can use the \c and \C flags in the search pattern to

force case matching no matter the setting of 'ignorecase' and 'smartcase'.

The :SearchBuffers command works just like :Search, but the search occurs in all currently listed buffers (i.e., appear in the output of :ls).  The match in all buffers will have the same color.  This is different than  :bufdo Search  because in that case, each buffer will highlight the match in a different color.  Thanks to Jeff Mei for the suggestion!

To clear the highlighting, issue the command

:SearchReset (for the current buffer) or :SearchBuffersReset (for all buffers).

 

You can specify the maximum number of different colors to use by setting the

g:MultipleSearchMaxColors variable in your .vimrc.  The default setting is

four, but the script should handle as much as your terminal / GUI can

display.  The g:MultipleSearchColorSequence variable lets you list the

colors you want displayed, and in what order.  To make the text more

readable, you can set the g:MultipleSearchTextColorSequence variable to a

list of colors for the text, each position corresponding to the color in the

same position in g:MultipleSearchColorSequence.

If you change one of the preference variables, you can issue the command

:SearchReinit

to update the script with your new selections.