# I'd love an extra pair of eyes on my strategy to ween myself off the Fast Vector Highlighter

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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 27, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/id-love-an-extra-pair-of-eyes-on-my-strategy-to-ween-myself-off-the-fast-vector-highlighter/16641 "2014-03-27T13:14:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/id-love-an-extra-pair-of-eyes-on-my-strategy-to-ween-myself-off-the-fast-vector-highlighter/16641/1 "2014-03-27T13:14:19Z")

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I think I've come up with a way to ween myself off of the Fast Vector  
Highlighter:

> **[nik9000/expiremental-highlighter](https://github.com/nik9000/expiremental-highlighter)**
>
> expiremental-highlighter - Expiremental highlighter for Java/Lucene/Elasticsearch

It:

- Doesn't need offsets in postings or term enums with offsets but can use  
either to speed itself up.
- Can fragment like the Postings Highlighter, the Fast Vector Highlighter,  
or it can highlight the entire field.
- Combine hits using multiple different fields (aka matched\_field support).
- Boost matches that appear early in the document.  
But id doesn't:
- Respect phrase matches at all (all phrases are reduced to terms)
- Support require\_field\_match

I'm not exactly sure when it'll be "ready" or what that even means. If  
anyone has time I'd love to folks to give it a shot and/or review the code  
for crazy.

Nik

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/id-love-an-extra-pair-of-eyes-on-my-strategy-to-ween-myself-off-the-fast-vector-highlighter/16641/2 "2017-07-06T01:40:13Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:40am UTC