On Jan 26, 3:35 pm, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote: > After searching for something, I typically type "/frhfurhfuhru" in > order to clear the search string, because I find the bright yellow > highlighting distracting.
It isn't an answer to your main problem, but you might find this snippet I have in my _vimrc file useful. It allows one to just press return to clear the highlighting. Credit to Zdenek Sekera. " Clears search highlighting by just hitting a return. " The <BS> clears the command line. " (From Zdenek Sekera on the vim list.) " I added the final <cr> to restore the standard behaviour of " <cr> to go to the next line nnoremap <CR> :nohlsearch<CR>/<BS><CR> regards, Geoff -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
