# Just Pushed: Highlighting: Allow to highlight on fields without term vectors

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/just-pushed-highlighting-allow-to-highlight-on-fields-without-term-vectors/3719>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 31, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/just-pushed-highlighting-allow-to-highlight-on-fields-without-term-vectors/3719 "2010-12-31T16:58:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/just-pushed-highlighting-allow-to-highlight-on-fields-without-term-vectors/3719/1 "2010-12-31T16:58:45Z")

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Hi,

Just pushed support for highlighting fields without the need to have  
term\_vector set on them (they don't have to be stored as well, extracted  
from source automatically). It is slower and more expensive compared to  
doing highlighting with term vectors. See more here:  
[https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/issue/585](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/issue/585).

-shay.banon

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**Author:** ![ppearcy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppearcy/32/980_2.png) [@ppearcy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppearcy)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/just-pushed-highlighting-allow-to-highlight-on-fields-without-term-vectors/3719/2 "2010-12-31T23:40:46Z")

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Sweet, very nice. Another great feature! The pace of development is  
epic.

Thanks,  
Paul

On Dec 31, 9:58 am, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just pushed support for highlighting fields without the need to have  
> term\_vector set on them (they don't have to be stored as well, extracted  
> from source automatically). It is slower and more expensive compared to  
> doing highlighting with term vectors. See more here:[Highlighting: Allow to highlight on fields without term vectors · Issue #585 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/issue/585).
> 
> -shay.banon

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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, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/just-pushed-highlighting-allow-to-highlight-on-fields-without-term-vectors/3719/3 "2017-07-06T04:14:33Z")

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