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

For example this plugIns:

• https://github.com/rrethy/vim-illuminate

• https://github.com/itchyny/vim-cursorword

Just search for under cursor in vimawesome.com

The key, as clagccs mentioned, is that the highlight does NOT conflict with your search: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Auto_highlight_current_word_when_idle

Screen-shot of how it does NOT conflict with search: Notes:

• vim-illuminate highlights by default, in my screen-shot I switched to underline
• vim-illuminate highlights/underlines word under cursor by default, in my screen-shot I unset it
• my colorschemes are very grey-ish. Check yours to customize it too.