Add highlight group for current match

[alok]

After patch 8.0.1238, it would be nice if the current match had its own highlight group (that could be linked by default to the regular Search hl group).

[brammool]

Which patch do you refer to? Patch 8.0.0128 is: Display test fails on MS-Windows.

[alok]

Sorry, missing a digit: I meant 1238.

[jparise]

The Loupe plugin does this:

Makes the currently selected match easier to see

When searching using /, ?, star, #, n, N or similar, it can be hard to see the "current" match from among all the matches that 'hlsearch' highlights. Loupe makes the currently selected match easier to see by:

• Applying a different :highlight group (by default, hl-IncSearch) to the match under the cursor.

It implements this using matchadd() to highlight the current match, but it would also make a nice addition to vim itself.

[jparise]

There's also a recent r/vim thread that suggests the vim-searchhi plugin as well as an ad hoc scripting solution.

[qxxxb]

There's also vim-searchlight, which uses no mappings

[blueyed]

For reference, there's a WIP PR for Neovim at: neovim/neovim#11082

[brammool]

It's not really the current match, more like the "last found match". If you move the cursor around and hit "n" then only the cursor position matters, not what was found last.
Using IncSearch has the disadvantage that this highlight will always happen, not only when the user specifically adds highlighting for it.

[airblade]

I'll throw my hat in the ring: https://github.com/airblade/vim-current-search-match

Update: never mind, I just saw 8.2.4724.

[chrisbra]

Closing then: a43993897aa372159f682df37562