Vim: search and highlight but do not jump

Question

The super star (*) key in Vim will search for the word under the cursor and jump forward to the next match. The user can jump to the next matches with the n key.

Answer 1

I would map:

nnoremap * *``

Works exactly like you want, except that it adds a jump in the jump list. To prevent that you need:

nnoremap * :keepjumps normal! mi*`i