accentuate.nvim

accentuate.nvim is a Neovim plugin providing mappings to (temporarily) highlight the word under the cursor.

This plugin expands on a mini-plugin I found a few years ago in Steve Losh's .vimrc and have found very useful ever since. Steve's original comment reads:

Sometimes you're looking at a hairy piece of code and would like a certain word or two to stand out temporarily. You can search for it, but that only gives you one color of highlighting. Now you can use N where N is a number from 1-6 to highlight the current word in a specific color.

Mappings

• <leader>w - highlight the word under the cursor with the next available color
• <leader>1, <leader>2, ..., <leader>9 - highlight the word under the cursor with the i-th color
• <leader>0 - clear the highlightings

Installation

Install the plugin with your preferred package manager. For example, with lazy.nvim:

return {
    "saliola/accentuate.nvim"
}