Disable Nearest Highlight During Substitute

[Callum Howard]

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When doing substitution on a search map, the Nearest Highlight remains during the substitution.
For example,

    hl.TelescopePromptTitle = {
      bg = c.bg_dark,
      fg = c.fg_dark,
    }
    hl.TelescopePreviewTitle = {
      bg = c.bg_dark,
      fg = c.fg_dark,
    }

and in nvim:

/fg_dark
:%s//foo_bar_baz/g

(Where empty substitute pattern uses previous search)

I get:

I would like:

I think this can be achieved by possibly disabling hls-lens before substituting and re-enabling after, but I don't see any autocommands like SubstitueEnter and SubstituteLeave that could be used to hook into...

[Kevin Hwang]

I will support incsearch for substitution, vimgrep, vimgrepadd, lvimgrep, lvimgrepadd and global first.

[Kevin Hwang]

Try Neovim 0.8 and the latest code. Neovim 0.8 shall be released at the end of this month.

[Callum Howard]

That works great, thank you!