winston0410/range-highlight.nvim

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CREATED

2021-05-15

UPDATED

2025-06-20

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range-highlight.nvim

An extremely lightweight plugin (~ 120loc) that highlights ranges you have entered in command line.

Features

• Single line range highlight (:10)

• Absolute range highlight (:20,15)

• Semicolon separated range highlight (:20;15)

• Backward range highlight (:20,15)

• Shorthand range highlight (:,15)

• Dot range highlight (:.,-2, :5,.)

• Relative range highlight (:+5,-2)

• Multiple relative range highlight (:10+5--,5+3-2)

• Mark range highlight (:'a,20)

• Last line and whole file highlight (:4,$, :%)

• Pattern range highlight (:/hello/d, ?world?d)

Installation

range-highlight.nvim requires a minimum version of NeoVim 0.10.0.

You can install it using any NeoVim package manager. For example:

lazy.nvim

require("lazy").setup({
    {
        "winston0410/range-highlight.nvim",
        event = { "CmdlineEnter" },
        opts = {},
    }
})
,

Configuration

This is the default configuration. It is likely that you don't need to change anything.

require("range-highlight").setup({ 
    highlight = {
        group = "Visual",
        priority = 10,
        -- if you want to highlight empty line, set it to true
        to_eol = false,
    },
    -- disable range highlight, if the cmd is matched here. Value here does not accept shorthand
    excluded = { cmd = {} },
    debounce = {
        -- how long to debounce, set to 0 to disable
        wait = 100,
    },
})

Disable highlight when you run :%s

If you want to prevent range highlighting, when using a substitute command, you can use the following exclusion list.

require("range-highlight").setup({ 
    excluded = { cmd = { "substitute" } },
})