On 1/19/07, John Beckett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One problem was how search highlighting is persistent (which is great), but it is very distracting to some people when you want to turn your attention to another issue. Telling him how to map a key to do ':nohl' is just unnecessary mumbo jumbo.
Which, presumably, is why 'hlsearch' is off by default. If you don't want to tell him about :nohl, then it doesn't make sense to enable 'hlsearch'. Perhaps a better way is to leave 'hlsearch' off and provide a binding that toggles it on and off. That way you don't get the "distracting" highlighting until you actually request it. Actually, I'm going to try that out, because I find myself always following a search command with a ',h', which is what I have :nohl bound to. nikolai
