Automatic highlighting of word under cursor

See more details in Features and Documentation.

[!NOTE]

This was previously hosted at a personal echasnovski GitHub account. It was transferred to a dedicated organization to improve long term project stability. See more details here.

⦿ This is a part of mini.nvim library. Please use this link if you want to mention this module.

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⦿ See whole library documentation to learn about general design principles, disable/configuration recipes, and more.

⦿ See MiniMax for a full config example that uses this module.

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Demo

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24854248/173044454-0e4ab873-6e73-448d-838f-45f4b2be876b.mp4

Features

• Current word under cursor can be highlighted differently.
• "Word under cursor" is meant as in Vim's <cword>: something user would get as 'iw' text object.
• Highlighting stops in insert and terminal modes.

Installation

This plugin can be installed as part of 'mini.nvim' library (recommended) or as a standalone Git repository.

There are two branches to install from:

• main (default, recommended) will have latest development version of plugin. All changes since last stable release should be perceived as being in beta testing phase (meaning they already passed alpha-testing and are moderately settled).
• stable will be updated only upon releases with code tested during public beta-testing phase in main branch.

vim.pack.add({ 'https://github.com/nvim-mini/mini.cursorword' })

vim.pack.add({
  { src = 'https://github.com/nvim-mini/mini.cursorword', version = 'stable' },
})

add('nvim-mini/mini.cursorword')

add({ source = 'nvim-mini/mini.cursorword', checkout = 'stable' })

{ 'nvim-mini/mini.cursorword', version = false },

{ 'nvim-mini/mini.cursorword', version = '*' },

Important: don't forget to call require('mini.cursorword').setup() to enable its functionality.

Note: if you are on Windows, there might be problems with too long file paths (like error: unable to create file <some file name>: Filename too long). Try doing one of the following:

• Enable corresponding git global config value: git config --system core.longpaths true. Then try to reinstall.
• Install plugin in other place with shorter path.

Default config

-- No need to copy this inside setup(). Will be used automatically.
{
  -- Delay (in ms) between when cursor moved and when highlighting appeared
  delay = 100,
}

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