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 -- -- 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
