searching-with-blinking

While searching even with hlsearch on, it's sometimes hard to find the next match. This plugin is to help find the next match quickly.

This plugin remaps n and N to keep the next match in the middle of the screen and blink it in red color for 0.05 sec (one can change the color and blinktime if he/she wishes by going to ~/.vim/bundle/searching-with-blinking/plugin/searching-with-blinking.vim). Add the following maps to your .vimrc--

nnoremap <buffer> n nzvzz:call HLNext(0.05)<cr>:echo<cr>
nnoremap <buffer> N Nzvzz:call HLNext(0.05)<cr>:echo<cr>

Although blinking is mostly helpful, sometimes one might want to turn blinking off and just keep the next match in the middle; especially when one cannot come up with a rigorous search pattern to go to the exact place he/she wants to go, he/she might want to skim through unnecessary matches to find the desired one.

The map <localleader>nm toggles n and N between these two behaviours--

nnoremap <buffer> <localleader>nm :call NextMatchToggle()<cr>:echo<cr>

Put this map in your .vimrc. You can, of course, change this mapping at your will.

Installation:

Using Vundle

1. Add Plugin 'MahbubAlam231/searching-with-blinking' to your .vimrc
2. Run :PluginInstall