vim-visualstar vs vim-evanesco

vim-visualstar

star for Visual-mode. (by thinca)

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vim-evanesco

Automatically clears search highlight (by pgdouyon)

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vim-visualstar		vim-evanesco
	Project
1	Mentions	2
121	Stars	51
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	0.0
almost 6 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
VimL	Language	Vim Script
-	License	MIT License

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vim-visualstar

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-visualstar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-21.

What is the equivalent of VS Code's "Ctrl+Shift+L" in Vim?
4 projects | /r/vim | 21 Oct 2021

i use a simple plugin to let me press * in visual mode: https://github.com/thinca/vim-visualstar

vim-evanesco

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-evanesco. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-11.

How do I use search without going directly to the first word found?
2 projects | /r/vim | 11 Mar 2022

I use pgdouyon/vim-evanesco for this purpose.
What is the equivalent of VS Code's "Ctrl+Shift+L" in Vim?
4 projects | /r/vim | 21 Oct 2021

https://github.com/pgdouyon/vim-evanesco has a mapping for '*' in visual mode - which turns whatever you have visually selected as a search. I find it very helpful for the kind of pattern matching/replacing.