Fixes #107 Bad Interaction Between Highlighting Line

and Match Highlighting

spacemacs/packages.el

@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
     helm-projectile
     helm-swoop
     helm-themes
+    highlight
     hl-anything
     hy-mode
     ido-vertical-mode
@@ -283,6 +284,20 @@ determine the state to enable when escaping from the insert state.")
       (use-package evil-search-highlight-persist
         :init
         (global-evil-search-highlight-persist)
+        ;; temporary hack, waiting for the maintainer to merge the fix
+        (require 'highlight)
+        (defun evil-search-highlight-persist-remove-all ()
+          (interactive)
+          (hlt-unhighlight-region-in-buffers (list (current-buffer))))
+        (defun evil-search-highlight-persist-mark ()
+          (let ((hlt-use-overlays-flag t)
+                (hlt-last-face 'evil-search-highlight-persist-highlight-face))
+            (hlt-highlight-regexp-region-in-buffers
+             (car-safe (if isearch-regexp
+                           regexp-search-ring
+                         search-ring))
+             (list (current-buffer)))))
+        ;; end of temporary hack
         (evil-leader/set-key "sc" 'evil-search-highlight-persist-remove-all)
         (evil-ex-define-cmd "noh" 'evil-search-highlight-persist-remove-all))
       ;; add a lisp state