[PLUG] stupid vi question
Sandy Herring
sandy at herring.org
Sat Jan 31 22:08:02 UTC 2004
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Matt Alexander wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Brian Quade wrote:
>
> > I am no vi expert or anything but I use it because it is convenient.
> > (Actually I use vim.) But if I accidentally hit the wrong key (the #
> > key I think), then whatever word the cursor is on turns brown in every
> > document I ever open with vi from that point onward. I tried looking in
> > .viminfo and I did remove all of the search history lines in there but
> > it didn't work. Does anyone know how I can turn this feature off
> > forever or get rid of it or something so that I don't get brown text all
> > over the screen?
>
> I don't know off-hand how to permanentaly disable it, but you could always
> just search for something else that doesn't exist:
>
> /lkjsflkjsdf
In your .vimrc,
set nohlsearch ' (aka nohls)
That's the default behavior, so I suspect your .vimrc has
set hlsearch ' (aka hls)
As Matt pointed out, you can do a failed search to get rid of the
highlighting on an adhoc basis. You can also,
:noh
hth,
Sandy
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