Mar 3, 2005
Tip: Quick no-highlight-search-matches in Vim
Somebody asked how to quickly disable search matches highlighting in vim because it tends to be distractful after a while.
Vim has hlsearch and the corresponding nohlsearch to toggle this behaviour (see :help hlsearch for more info). So we could create mappings to quickly disable hlsearch, for example I use F12 for this.
map <F12> :nohlsearch<CR> imap <F12> <ESC>:nohlsearch<CR>i vmap <F12> <ESC>:nohlsearch<CR>gv
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