Toggling on/off

[YodaEmbedding]

Sometimes, I want just want to <C-d> through a document without losing the highlights.

It would be useful to implement a command or option for toggling vim-cool on/off.

:VimCoolToggle

[romainl]

Hmm, :VimCoolToggle sounds a lot like the :nohlsearch this plugin is specifically designed to eradicate.

[YodaEmbedding]

99% of the time, I want highlighting to disappear upon navigation. But there's a small 1% where it is useful to revert to the default behavior.

Imagine searching for this in a file:

this this this this

...many lines...

this this this this lorem ipsum
this this this this dolor sit
this this this this amet

...many lines...

this <-- this "this" is what we were looking for

Instead of pressing n repeatedly, it's faster to <C-f> a few times.

[romainl]

I don't use /? to "search", only to "navigate" to a specific thing, usually in the visible part of the buffer. For actually "searching" I generally use :g.

Anyway, what you ask for should be doable but I doubt I will have time to look into it before January.

[kevinlawler]

I'm a +1 on this. Thanks @romainl for showing consideration even though you personally find this nonsensical---uncommonly generous.

[tmpm697]

+1, I use / only to search through document and I always keep them highlighted.

[tmpm697]

quick and dirty solution, for now change cool.vim as below:

function! s:PlayItCool(old, new)
    if a:old == 0 && a:new == 1
        " nohls --> hls
        "   set up coolness
        " noremap <silent> <Plug>(StopHL) :<C-U>nohlsearch<cr>
        " if !exists('*execute')
        "     noremap! <expr> <Plug>(StopHL) <SID>AuNohlsearch()
        " else
        "     noremap! <expr> <Plug>(StopHL) execute('nohlsearch')[-1]
        " endif

        " autocmd Cool CursorMoved * call <SID>StartHL()
        " autocmd Cool InsertEnter * call <SID>StopHL()
    elseif a:old == 1 && a:new == 0

[kevinlawler]

A hack to accomplish this is:

:set eventignore=CursorMoved,OptionSet,InsertEnter
" ...
:set eventignore=

For my case CursorMoved is enough. So the following fixes the vim-cool bug where highlighting is disabled when the cursor reaches the end of the buffer and wraps around.

nnoremap <silent> <leader>* :set eventignore=CursorMoved<CR>:execute("/blah")<CR>:set eventignore=<CR>

Using /blah, say with <expr>, instead of :execute("/blah") sidesteps these issues entirely.

[romainl]

@kevinlawler I'm not sure what bug you are referring to. Could you provide a recording of it and a minimal reproducible test?

[kevinlawler]

Open vim

999iblah<return><esc>/blah<return>

highlighting disappears at top of file

This actually wrecks it for / and * and :execute versions - there may be more than one issue, verify on other real-world cases starting from the bottom with different positioning

This is as much time as I can provide currently

[romainl]

Unfortunately I am unable to reproduce the problem, neither on your example nor on the couple of real world case I tried. I think I would have noticed it already given how often I use / in a given day.

[kevinlawler]

repros on latest macvim, neovim macos

 vim -u NONE -u /path/to/cool.vim