Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
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.
The search register can be overwritten by setting @/ to ''. This then
clears your search "properly".
For my purposes, I have the following mapping in my vimrc:
nnoremap <silent> <M-/> :set @/=''<CR>
so pressing alt-/ then clears my search.
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