Arnie97 / slash.vim

Enhancing in-buffer search experience

vim-slash

vim-slasher (fork of vim-slash) provides a set of mappings for enhancing in-buffer search experience in Vim.

• Automatically clears search highlight when cursor is moved
• Improved-star motion: hit once to highlight, repeat to jump next
• Improved visual star-motion: hit once in visual mode to highlight, repeat to move to next highlighted term
• Enhanced cgn substitution: highlight only disappears when you move cursor in normal mode, so that you easily see when repeated operations are going to act.
• Indexed search message, borrowed from vim-indexed-search.

Installation

Using vim-plug:

Plug 'thalesmello/vim-slasher'

Comparison with vim-slash

vim-slasher is a fork of vim-slash with additional features rejected by the original author.

It provides:

• Search movement by repeating the star key
• Omits the search text in the status message
• Highlight doens't disappear when changing text (for cgn substitution)
• Indexed search message, from vim-indexed-search.

Customization

zz after search

Places the current match at the center of the window.

noremap <plug>(slash-after) zz

Blinking cursor after search using Vim 8 timer

if has('timers')
  " Blink 2 times with 50ms interval
  noremap <expr> <plug>(slash-after) slasher#blink(2, 50)
endif

You can prepend zz to the expression: 'zz'.slasher#blink(2, 50)

Thanks

This plugin is based on the amazing work by Junegunn Choi, which brought us vim-slash, vim-plug and the amazing fzf.

The indexed search was only possible because of the work of Iener Yakov, Otto Modinos and Hendrik Nyh in vim-indexed-search.

I wanted to combine features of both plugins, plus a few extras, so it motivated me to build this one.