On 2017-02-04 05:14, Marcus Martinez wrote: > ...and modified the first ten lines using Sed substitution... > :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. > > Why does this happen? How can I "undo" this new pattern so that vim > does not highlight the first character of each line?
Why? You have 'hls' set, so it highlights the last thing you searched for. In this case, /^/ which is the beginning of the line. How can you undo it? A couple different ways: - if you like the search highlighting but just want to hide it for these search results, use ":noh" to turn it off until the next time you do a search - alternatively, you can search for junk that isn't in your file: /lkasjdfdlkjgadslkgjads - if the highlighting annoys you all the time, you use :set nohls to turn it off completely. I generally fly with 'nohls' set and only turn it on when I actually want that functionality. I also remap control+L (usually just a simple :redraw of the screen) to also do a :noh in the process: :nnoremap <c-L> :noh<cr><c-L> which feels intuitive to me. YMMV. You can read more at :help 'hls' :help :noh -tim -- -- 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.
