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,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>