Re: Question about highlighting all matches of a local variable within a C/C++ subroutine

On Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 6:41:12 PM UTC-5, DrChip wrote:
> John Fishburn wrote:
> > I know that
> > .set hlsearch
> > will highlight all matches of search patterns.
> >
> > My question is, can this highlighting be done only for occurrences of a local variable within a C/C++ subroutine? E.g. highlight all occurrences of 'i' that are local to a subroutine but not those outside.
> >
> Try funcsrch (get it from
> http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#FUNCSRCH)
>
> To do what you want:
>
> :set hls
> :FS \<varname\>
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell

I had trouble getting this to work.

The first issue was SaveWinPosn was not defined. I found it in cecutil.vba, but I don't see this being mentioned as a prerequisite.

Currently it doesn't seem to do anything, but hitting 'n' produces:

E486: Pattern not found: \%(\%>0l\%<34l\)&MYSTRING

(where MYSTRING is what was being searched for and does exist in the current C function).
It looks like 34 is the line after what may be considered the first block as enclosed by {}, but not the block the cursor is currently sitting.

Is there more magic needed or is my environment conflicting?

Thanks!

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