context-highlight.vim

Introduction

context-highlight.vim is a vim plugin for highlight according to cursor situatoin.

In default, this plugin provides 3 sources for highlight

• current_word highlight words in current buffer it is same word as cursor on.
• matchit highlight matchit word when cursor is on matchit keywords.
• indent highlight vertical line which has the same level indent as cursor is on.

In CursorHold and CursorHoldI, highlight some words related to current word.

Install

Install the distributed files into your Vim script directory which is usually $HOME/.vim, or $HOME/vimfiles on Windows.

Usage

enable sources

set source names which you want to use to g:context_highlight_enable_source_name

let g:context_highlight_enable_source_name = ["current_word", "indent", "matchit"]

disable filetype

you can specify filetypes for disabling context-highlight.vim. It is spcified as list of filetypes in g:context_highlight_disable_file_type.

let g:context_highlight_disable_file_type = ["", "unite", "txt", "tmp"]

The string will be compared with &filetype of a buffer.

Sources

current_word

• pattern: expand('<cword>')
• highlight the words as CurrentWord

Highlight expand('<cword>') words on the current buffer. This match pattern use highlight

matchit

• pattern: execute normal % pattern
• highlight the words as CurrentWord

When execute normal % and move to next word, highlight pair words of b:match_words. It assumes that the macro of matchit is loaded.

indent

• pattern: blanks on the last space of top on the line
• highlight name: Indent