Emacs: auto-highlight-symbol package

This article will describe using auto-highlight-symbol package which highlight symbol at the cursor.

1 Install auto-highlight-symbol package

Install auto-highlight-symbol package with M-x package-list-packages.

auto-highlight-... 1.55  available  Automatic highlighting current symbol minor mode

2 ${HOOME}/.emacs

Add auto-highlight-symbol-mode to each major mode. c++-mode is as below.

(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook 'auto-highlight-symbol-mode)

all major mode is as below.

(add-hook 'after-init-hook 'global-auto-highlight-symbol-mode)

3 Execution result

All locations of "argc" are highlighted.

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