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

[Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>]

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This is my favorite solution so far. The only problem with it is that it
doesn't play nicely with hl-line-mode, so when my current line has a
special background, highlight-symbol's background is overridden. This
wasn't the case with isearch-mode. Do you think this would be hard to fix?

-Steven


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com> wrote:

> I use highlight symbols to highlight same symbols, and jump between them.
>  It chooses rainbow colors automatically and makes it much easier to follow
> some key variables through a block of code.
>
> My fork https://github.com/lewang/highlight-symbol.el allows you to use
> arbitrary region as a "symbol".
>
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> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Often times I find that I want to jump to another occurrence of the
>> word-under-point, almost always variables or functions. I end up going to
>> the beginning of the word with M-b, doing isearch-forward with C-s, adding
>> all the words until the full word is the search term with C-w a bunch of
>> times, and finally C-s to jump around to other instances of it.
>>
>> Is there a better way to do this?
>>
>> -Steven
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> Le
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