Re: clearing search buffer in vim

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 02:20:23PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> a friend just asked me how, after searching for something in vim, to
> clear the highlighting.  i told him i usually just hit / and then
> smash my fingers around on the home row for a bit[1], the result of
> which inevitably doesn't match anything.  is there a Better Way to do
> this?  how do most people clear the search buffer?

I unset the 'hlsearch' option, so I don't get the highlighting in the
first place. If you do have hlsearch set, though, :noh (or :nohlsearch)
will clear it until the next search.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]