vim-highlight/doc/highlight.txt

*highlight-registry* functionality of the highlight registry

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CONTENTS                                                  *highlight-contents*

1. Usage ................................................... |highlight-usage|
2. Statusline ......................................... |highlight-statusline|

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Section 1: Usage                                             *highlight-usage*

["x]&                Highlights the <cword> under the cursor into register x.

["x]y&               Sets the search register to the contents of register x.

["x]d&               Removes the <cword> from register x.

["x]c&               Emptys register x. No patterns previously belonging
                     inside this register will be highlighted.

["x]*                Highlights the <cword> under the cursor into register x.
                     Moves to the next occurrence of the <cword>.

["x]#                Highlights the <cword> under the cursor into register x.
                     Moves to the previous occurrence of the <cword>.

["x]g&               Highlights the <cword> under the cursor, but without
                     forcing any highlighted occurrences to be a word. That
                     is, if the selected <cword> is a substring of any text
                     in the current buffer, the substring will also be
                     highlighted.

["x]g*               Works like ["x]g& but also moves to the next occurrence
                     of the pattern.

["x]g#               Works like ["x]g& but also moves to the previous
                     occurrence of the pattern.

v_["x]&              Note the v indicates visual mode. Works like g&, but
                     with the visually selected region.

v_["x]*              Note the v indicates visual mode. Works like g*, but
                     with the visually selected region.

v_["x]#              Note the v indicates visual mode. Works like g#, but
                     with the visually selected region.

v_["x]d&             Note the v indicates visual mode.  Removes the visually
                     selected region from register x.

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Section 2: Statusline                                   *highlight-statusline*

highlight#statusline()

    Use the following function to append the currently active highlight
    register into the statusline. This can be done as:

                :set statusline+=%{highlight#statusline()}

    If using airline, can pass in the name of a defined function as a
    parameter to #statusline():

    call airline#parts#define_function('foo', 'highlight#statusline("foo")')
                     

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