On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Marcus Martinez <
[email protected]> wrote:

> ...



> :1,10 s/^/--/
>
> After running this command the beginning of lines 1 through 10 do have the
> "--" correctly placed. However, the first character of each line in the
> file is now highlighted (as shown in the attached image). The pattern now
> recurs for any text file I open with vim.
>
> If you run :nohlsearch does that leading yellow column go?

It is showing you the last search, since ^ matches the beginning of every
line, that is why it is there.

:h hlsearch

HTH,
David

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