How to highlight all occurrences of a selected word in VIM?

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How can I highlight all occurrence of a selected word in GVim, like in Notepad++?

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For example this plugIns:

Just search for under cursor in vimawesome.com

The key, as clagccs mentioned, is that the highlight does NOT conflict with your search: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Auto_highlight_current_word_when_idle

Screen-shot of how it does NOT conflict with search: enter image description here Notes:

  • vim-illuminate highlights by default, in my screen-shot I switched to underline
  • vim-illuminate highlights/underlines word under cursor by default, in my screen-shot I unset it
  • my colorschemes are very grey-ish. Check yours to customize it too.
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