I didn't knew exactly where to reply My comments on nohl: nnoremap <esc> :nohl <bar> echo ""<cr> should clear message line and remove highlighting
This kind of one line command is to be put into vimrc, right? It's not worth implementing it in C code of vim? I agree that its not a good idea to introduce yet another vim behaviour for new users. It would be much better to show them where to get information: Eg why don't we introduce another option "show_new_user_hints" which display extra messags such like: Your search triggered highliting. See :h nohl<cr> to get to know how to get rid of it.. put set show_new_user_hints=0 to not show these messages. These messages could be shown similar to "search hit BOTTOM .." What about mentioning vimtutor and #vim on freenode on the splash screen? So we can tell them to type :h <topic> ? Where topic is hard to know for new users. Marc
