Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Well, hlsearch only kicks in /after/ you've completed your search, whether you're using 'incsearch' or not. I once thought this was a nice feature, but I've realized that I rarely need to have other matches highlighted. I mean, either I've found what I want using 'incsearch', or I have failed to find the text location that I wanted, and highlighting the other matches won't really help much. Narrowing your search using 'incsearch' is often a lot quicker than doing a quick search and pressing 'n' a bunch of times to get to the right match.
What you describe works well in many circumstances. But I find that the global highlighting is invaluable when programming. Built-in to Vim is the fact that pressing * searches for the current word. Programmers love this. IMHO they would appreciate a simple way to clear the highlights _and_ the message line when turning attention to something else. Searching for non-existent junk is just too distracting to my mental process. John
