Question

I’ve enjoyed using # to highlight and search for a word (variable) but I would love if I could hit a single command that would simply tell me how many occurrences are in the current file. I’ve found the following

:%s/dns_name_change_flag/&/gn

But that’s too much typing. Is there anyway to maybe map the above one-liner to use the word under cursor?

Answer 1

I don’t know how to do this without execute. The following maps F5 to count occurrences of the word under the cursor using <cword> and word boundary patterns (\\< and \\>):

:map <f5> :execute ":%s@\\<" . expand("<cword>") . "\\>\@&@gn"<CR>