On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Matthew Winn <v...@mwinn.powernet.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/07/16 20:43, Bram Moolenaar wrote: >> >> Christian Brabandt wrote: >>> >>> please no hlsearch. That is most often annoying. >> >> Well, I find it useful. But I suppose that's more a personal >> preference. > > Searching for a pattern is a fundamentally different operation from > highlighting matches of a pattern. I hate it when a system has hlsearch on > by default because most of the time when I'm searching it's so I can examine > each individual match separately and decide what needs to be done at each > location. With multiple matches on the screen it can be difficult to spot > which one is THE match. > Me, OTOH, I find it useful: when there are several matches on the screen it's easier to spot them; then if none of them is THE match, rather nan hit n to get at all of them in turn, I'll move the cursor to the other side of them all and continue from there.
The default hlsearch colours of gvim (with yellow background instead of white for Normal, i.e. just enough contrast but not toooooo much) I prefer to those of less (reverse-video); but of course less uses the same colours (which are monochrome colours) regardless of the terminal while Vim has separate settings for term, cterm and gui. Well, to each his own I suppose. "De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum." Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
