Actually, while looking through .viminfo to see if that was already set and I stumbled across this: # hlsearch on (H) or off (h): ~H
I changed to a lowercase 'h' and now it seems that I can get on with my life. Thanks for the pointer though. --"My break-dancing days are over, but there's always the funky chicken" The Full Monty On Mar 14, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi lazloman! > > On Mo, 14 Mär 2011, lazloman wrote: > >> After I do a search, the results remain highlighted. I've found I can >> clear the results doing this: >> :let @/ = "" >> >> But, upon restarting vim those search results are again highlighted. I >> found that using >> :nohlsearch >> in .vimrc prevents the old search results from being highlighted on >> startup, but I have to undo that to have my search highlighting re- >> enable. >> Is there a way ensure that cleared search highlighting is cleared on >> startup while still allowing a new search to highlight its results > > That probably comes from the viminfo file. Try tweaking the setting of > 'viminfo' by explicitly not saving the search history, like this: > > :set viminfo+=/0 > > Read the help at: > :h viminfo > :h 'viminfo' > > regards, > Christian > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
