From e43a84feaf5298b7f290e52aa7567fed87f2a336 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Marcin=20Wo=C5=BAniak?= <y0rune@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:54:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added the highlight visual after pressing enter

---
 .config/nvim/init.vim | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.config/nvim/init.vim b/.config/nvim/init.vim
index 9433fbe..8e943d7 100644
--- a/.config/nvim/init.vim
+++ b/.config/nvim/init.vim
@@ -561,6 +561,10 @@ au BufNewFile,BufRead *.conf setfiletype conf
 autocmd BufWritePre * %s/\s\+$//e
 autocmd BufWritepre * %s/\n\+\%$//e
 
+" Source: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/20077/automatically-highlight-all-occurrences-of-the-selected-text-in-visual-mode
+" highlight the visual selection after pressing enter.
+xnoremap <silent> <cr> "*y:silent! let searchTerm = '\V'.substitute(escape(@*, '\/'), "\n", '\\n', "g") <bar> let @/ = searchTerm <bar> echo '/'.@/ <bar> call histadd("search", searchTerm) <bar> set hls<cr>
+
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 " FZF
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