Re: Is there an easier way to jump to the same word?

[Steven Degutis]

Actually it looks like highlight-symbol.el is nearly perfect. The only problem with it is that it doesn't render background colors properly on matches when hl-line-mode is also used.

-Steven

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

Hi Steven,

Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:

> Are these functions defining word boundaries? What are the \\< and \
> \> used for? Using (current-word) should probably be sufficient, no?

(current-word t t) would better suits my own needs actually.

> Also, I didn't realize this until after I tried Chris's solution, but
> I also need it to highlight other occurrences of (current-word) in
> the buffer.

In that case, I think your first recipe (C-s C-w C-s) is the shortest
solution.

HTH,

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 Bastien