on Sun, 11 May 2003 08:13:50PM +0100, Colin Watson insinuated:
> 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.
awesome! exactly what i was looking for. thanks!
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get my (*new*) key here:
http://www.maenad.net/geek/gpg/7ede5499.asc
(please *remove* old key 11e031f1!)
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