Highlight all occurrence of a selected word?

Question

How can I highlight all occurrence of a selected word in GVim, like in Notepad++?

Answer 1

Search based solutions (*, /...) move cursor, which may be unfortunate.

An alternative is to use enhanced mark.vim plugin, then complete your .vimrc to let double-click trigger highlighting (I don't know how a keyboard selection may trigger a command) :

"Use Mark plugin to highlight selected word  
map <2-leftmouse> \m   

It allows multiple highlightings, persistence, etc.

To remove highlighting, either :

• Double click again
• :Mark (switch off until next selection)
• :MarkClear