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! </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^ get my (*new*) key here: http://www.maenad.net/geek/gpg/7ede5499.asc (please *remove* old key 11e031f1!)
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