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Asked: 2026-05-24T09:34:45+00:00

When I’m on Windows, I use notepad++, and on Linux I use vim. I

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When I’m on Windows, I use notepad++, and on Linux I use vim. I really like vim. But there is at least one thing I find really interesting in notepad++. You can double-click on a word and it highlights all occurrences of that word automatically. I was wondering if I could do something like that with vim? So the question is how to highlight all occurrences of a word when you double click on the word in vim.

Obviously, I don’t want to search for that word, or change my cursor position, just highlighting. My :set hlsearch is also on.

probably you may want to avoid the mouse in vim, but I make an exception here :).

I know that * does the same job, but what about mouse?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can map * to double-click by a simple mapping:

    :map <2-LeftMouse> *

    If you want to use said functionality in insert-mode you can use this mapping:

    :imap <2-LeftMouse> <c-o>*

    Without (Ctrl-o) the * would be printed

    [EDIT]
    As ZyX pointed out, it is always a good idea to use noremap respectively inoremap if you want to make sure that if * or <c-o> will be mapped to something else, that this recursive mapping won’t be expanded.

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