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