Matthew Winn wrote:

> In other products I've seen where search highlighting is always on, it
> generally takes users no more than a couple of seconds to realise that
> if the highlighting is distracting them all they have to do is enter a
> search that won't work, typically by dragging their fingers across the
> keyboard to create a string like "sdzdxfchgjbnk", and the highlighting
> has gone.

I used to do this with vim, until I was working on some very large
files, and got of waiting for the bogus search to finish.  Then I
finally looked up how to disable the highlighting.  I've never bound
it to anything finding: :nohl<CR> easy enough to type.

Dave

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