RRethy/vim-illuminate

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2465 stars · 74 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A (Neo)Vim plugin that automatically highlights other uses of the word under the cursor using LSP, Tree-sitter, or regex matching. It includes keymaps for navigating between references and a textobject for the illuminated reference.

Use cases

• highlight all occurrences of the word under the cursor in vim
• navigate between references of a symbol in neovim
• highlight variable usages using LSP or treesitter
• see where a function is used in the current buffer
• automatically illuminate matching words while editing code

When to choose

• you use Vim or Neovim and want automatic highlighting of symbol references without manual searching
• you want zero-config highlighting that leverages LSP or Tree-sitter when available
• you need keymaps to jump between occurrences of the word under the cursor

When to avoid

• you use an IDE or a non-Vim editor with built-in reference highlighting
• you need project-wide reference search rather than buffer-local highlighting
• you work with very large files where the plugin disables itself by default

Facets

plugin · maturity stable

editor developer-tools developer-tools text-editors editor-plugin cli vim neovim lsp treesitter syntax-highlighting code-navigation

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