svermeulen / vim-mark

highlight several words in different colors simultaneously (bug fix/feature fork)

This is a mirror of Ingo Karkat's Mark plugin. The vim-scripts depot is out of date.

DESCRIPTION This plugin adds mappings and a :Mark command to highlight several words in different colors simultaneously, similar to the built-in 'hlsearch' highlighting of search results and the * command. For example, when you are browsing a big program file, you could highlight multiple identifiers in parallel. This will make it easier to trace the source code.

This is a continuation of vimscript #1238 by Yuheng Xie, who doesn't maintain his original version anymore and recommends switching to this fork. This plugin offers the following advantages over the original:

• Much faster, all colored words can now be highlighted, no more clashes with syntax highlighting (due to use of matchadd()).
• Many bug fixes.
• Jumps behave like the built-in search, including wrap and error messages.
• Like the built-in commands, jumps take an optional [count] to quickly skip over some marks.
• Marks can be persisted, and patterns can be added / subtracted from mark highlight groups.