This is a kakoune plugin for highlighting all occurences of your selection in the document. The plugin provides the following commands:
:qhl-word: Highlights all occurences of the word under the cursor.:qhl-sel: Highlights all occurences of the main selection.:qhl-sel-nob: Same as the above, but ignores word boundaries.:unqhl: Removes the highlight.
The package also registers the face QhlHighlight, which defaults to the color #55055, a dark purple.
Recommended bindings are
map global user '&' ':qhl-word<ret>' -docstring "Highlight current word"
map global user '"' ':unqhl<ret>' -docstring "Remove highlight"