Re: highlighting search results from within a function

On 06/21/12 15:59, richard emberson wrote:
> I've got a function:
>
> function! XXXX()
> execute '/this'
> endfunction
>
> and when I run it:
>
> :call XXXX()
>
> my cursor is positioned at the first 'this' but the text
> is not highlighted (nor is the text of any of the other 'this'
> highlighted).
>
> If I go into search history, the search is there and if I
> execute the historical search, the 'this's all highlight.
>
> So, my question is: how can I do a search from within a
> function and have the search results highlighted?

To address your immediate issue, I suspect you also need to make
sure that highlight-search is set on

function! XX()
/this
set hls
endfunction

As a side-note, as you can see in my example, you can directly issue
the search without wrapping it in an exec call.

Alternatively, you might investigate using the :match command
something like

function XX()
match Error /this/
endfunction

where "Error" is the highlighting group you want to use for
colori[zs]ation purposes.

-tim



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