Quick-scope

An always-on highlight for a unique character in every word on a line to help you use f, F and family.

This plugin should help you get to any word on a line in two or three keystrokes with Vim's built-in f<char> (which moves your cursor to <char>).

When moving across a line, the f, F, t and T motions combined with ; and , should be your go-to options for many reasons. Quick-scope fixes their only drawback: it is difficult to consistently choose the right characters to target.

Features:

• Quick-scope highlights the first occurrences of characters to the left and right of your cursor (green in the screencast), once per word, every time your cursor moves.
• If a word does not contain a first occurrence of a character but contains a second occurrence of a character, that character is highlighted in another color (blue in the screencast).
• Quick-scope takes extra measures to avoid bombarding you with superfluous colors:
• • It ignores special characters since they are easy to eye and tend to only appear once or twice on a line.
• • By default, it samples colors from your active color scheme for its highlighting.

Benefits

• Highlighting is done automatically.
• You already know what character to target before pressing any keys.
• No more guesswork or slowing down to reason about the character motions.
• This plugin neither introduces new motions nor overrides built-in ones.
• You don't have to learn any new commands or mappings.
• This helps you to become a better user of vanilla Vim.