Colin Watson wrote:
a friend just asked me how, after searching for something in vim, to clear the highlighting [...]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.
Seems much more easy to hit '/xxx' than ':noh', isn't it? Cheers Eric