Function: evil-ex-search-activate-highlight

evil-ex-search-activate-highlight is a byte-compiled function defined in evil-search.el.

Signature

(evil-ex-search-activate-highlight PATTERN)

Documentation

Activate highlighting of the search pattern set to PATTERN.

This function does nothing if evil-ex-search-interactive or evil-ex-search-highlight-all is nil.

Source Code

;; Defined in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/evil-20251108.138/evil-search.el
;; interactive search
(defun evil-ex-search-activate-highlight (pattern)
  "Activate highlighting of the search pattern set to PATTERN.
This function does nothing if `evil-ex-search-interactive' or
`evil-ex-search-highlight-all' is nil. "
  (when (and evil-ex-search-interactive evil-ex-search-highlight-all)
    (with-current-buffer (or evil-ex-original-buffer (current-buffer))
      (unless (evil-ex-hl-active-p 'evil-ex-search)
        (evil-ex-make-hl 'evil-ex-search
                         :win (or (minibuffer-selected-window) (selected-window))))
      (when pattern
        (evil-ex-hl-change 'evil-ex-search pattern)))))