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+# Illuminate.vim
+
+ (Neo)Vim plugin for automatically highlighting other uses of the word under the cursor using either LSP, Tree-sitter, or regex matching.
+
+**Repository:** <https://github.com/RRethy/vim-illuminate>
diff --git a/lua/astrocommunity/bars-and-lines/illuminate-vim/init.lua b/lua/astrocommunity/bars-and-lines/illuminate-vim/init.lua
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+return {
+  "RRethy/vim-illuminate",
+  event = "User AstroFile",
+  opts = {},
+  config = function(_, opts) require("illuminate").configure(opts) end,
+}