>when i do a search like /text >it highlights all of the matches and i can use n and N to navigate. >how do i turn the highlighting off when i am done?
Need to keep the pattern in memory? If not, "/zzz" will do it, assuming you don't have "zzz" anywhere else in your file, of course. Can fiddle with ":set nohls" and whatnot, but for me, it's just easier to search for nothing to turn off highlighting of the just-searched-for text. Then, of course, you'd have to ":set hls" to turn it back on again. Lotta typing, big pain, 'swhy I don't do that, and just search for gibberish instead if I want to unhighlight what I was just looking for.
