Brian Lewis wrote:
I'm editing a file and open a preview window. When I search with /, I'd
like the main window to show highlighted matches, but for the preview
window not to.
nohlsearch seems to be global, so I can't :setl nohlsearch in the
preview window to get what I want.
Maybe there's a way to modify color scheme settings in the preview window
to make highlighted matches look as if they aren't highlighted?
Thanks for the help.
/ or ? search is always global (I mean, it searches within the current file
only, but matches are highlighted in all windows); no luck there. Similarly,
colorschemes, highlight groups, and the 'hlsearch' option are also global.
If you want to un-highlight the search matches once you're done looking at
them, you can use the ":noh[lsearch]" command (without ":set"); if you want to
highlight the matches of different patterns to be highlighted in different
colors, you can use the ":match" and ":2match" commands. These are all I can
think of.
see
:help :nohlsearch
:help :match
:help :2match
Best regards,
Tony.
