On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:15:57 +1100, "John Beckett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMHO it is quite idiotic that Vim has the really great feature of > globally highlighting searches, but the user has to learn how to > map keys to make it work in a sensible way. I suppose there > are people who don't mind the distracting highlights once > they've finished looking at them, but I'm pretty confident that > most people here have a mapping to deal with the situation. 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. -- Matthew Winn
