On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 06:09:53AM -0800, Devin Teske wrote:
>
> On Jan 3, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:27:38 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> >> one question I have may solve the problem of vim displaying
> >> all the ^/search terms and displaying them in some color.
> >> the default brown is awful, but dark blue isn't much bbetter.
> >
> > If you try :colorscheme blue you can see that the results have
> > orange background with dark text (maybe black?), while the editor
> > background is blue (as the name of the color scheme suggests).
> >
> >
> >
> >> So: can I add something to my ~/.vimrc that =limits=
> >> the "search" to displaying one term? if I am searching for,
> >> say, "the" or I guess /\<the\>, I dont want every "the" in my
> >> file. I want only one. or one at a time, and not necessarily
> >> in color.
> >
> > If you have :set hlsearch activated, all (visible) matches will
> > be highlighted,
>
> :set hls
> :set nohls
>
> for short to enable/disable (respectively).
>
>
> > and the cursor will be placed at the first match.
> >
>
YES! well, at least it works when I reply in mutt --which ive got
set to use vim. the "set" strings immediately vanished from deep
blue ... in other words, I can read the reply much more easily.
I put the
":set nohls"
in my ~/.muttrc and got an error when I exec'd mutt. I'll try
without the colon.
> On a side note, there's also :set incsearch
>
> That will make you jump ahead as you type (I personally don't care for it).
>
right; I see that "incsearch" jumps ahead to the next /search term
[.] I can see a use if you are searching for, say "/\<i\>" or
"/\<j\>" , maybe.
> > I don't see an option to highlight the _next_ result only. However,
> > if you do _not_ set hlsearch, searching and continuing searching
> > will not highlight anything, instead let the cursor skip to the
> > next match (tried here with "gvim /COPYRIGHT", /this, /, /, / and
> > so on), with :set nohlsearch for testing.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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