Thanks for your quick answer! Indeed, I mixed up command and option. So now I have these entires in my .vimrc now
" enable highlighted search featue set hlsearch " disable highlighted search on startup :nohlsearch But this does not work either. My main goal is, that I don't want to see 'old' searches highlighted on vim startup. Maybe there is a better way to achieve this. Something like set remember_old_searchpattern=off ??? best regards Ralf Am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 09:27 schrieben Sie: > Ralf Schmitt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm a bit confused about the hlsearch feature of v7. > > In my .vimrc I set "set nohlsearch" to disable highlighting > > of search results on startup. > > > > :help nohlsearch says > > > > Stop the highlighting for the 'hlsearch' option. It > > is automatically turned back on when using a search > > command, or setting the 'hlsearch' option. > > > > But when I search by "/" nothing gets highlighted! The > > highlighting comes back when I do "!hls" > > > > What am I missing? Isn't it possible to activate this feature > > on first usage of a vim session? > > > > > > best regards > > > > Ralf > > The ":nohlsearch" COMMAND sets search highlighting temporarily off until > next search. > > The 'hlsearch' / 'nohlsearch' OPTION enables or disables search > highlighting permanently. > > :set nohlsearch > > disables all search highlighting. > > :set hlsearch > > enables all search highlighting. > > :nohlsearch > > disables it until next search, at what time it will be > re-enabled if 'hlsearch' is on. > > !hls > ought to give a shell message, similar to: > Unknown command or file name: "hls" > However, on my system it gets translated to :.!ls > and writes a directory listing into the current buffer. > > :set hls! > :set invhls > > toggles the boolean option: enables highlighting if disabled, > or vice-versa. > > :help nohlsearch > > doesn't find the exact thing you asked for, and gives you > ":help :nohlsearch" (help for the command) > > :help 'hlsearch' > :help 'hls' > :help 'nohlsearch' > :help 'nohls' > > finds the help for the option. > > Morality: Computers are literal-minded. If you ask a computer to > second-guess you, you're asking for trouble. > > > Best regards, > Tony.
