Jason Weber wrote:
Would you be satisfied with changing the background color for
spaces? Step 1:
Ah, that's an idea. Just "/ " to search for spaces (assumes
highlighting's turned on), and they'll all be highlighted. He wants to
turn off highlighting, just "/qqq" or something.
Else maybe tweak the font to change space to · or something.
Thing is, change the font to something else, and that goes away, and
he'd have to tweak the font for that as well.
Eg, if he's using Lucida console 10pt, make a copy of the font, rename
to something else ("Lucidaspace" or whatever), edit the font to change
the space char, then when you want visispaces, just font your way to
that. Want invisispaces again, change back to the normal Lucida font.
I prefer "/;;" to turn off highlighting. the keys are right next to each
other and never happen in any languages I use.
[...]
To turn off highlighting until next search, vim has the ":noh[lsearch]"
command. You may want to use something like ":map ;; :noh<CR>" if ":noh"
(4 keys including <Enter>) is too long for you.
Best regards,
Tony.
