How do you make Vim unhighlight what you searched for

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I search for  nurple  in a file  I found it  great  But now  every occurrence of  nurple  is rendered in sick black on yellow  Forever   Forever  that is  until I search for something I know won t be found  such as  asdhfalsdflajdflakjdf  simply so it clears the previous search highlighting   Can t I just hit a magic key to kill the highlights when I m done searching

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I search so often that I ve found it useful to map the underscore key to remove the search highlight   nnoremap  lt silent gt     nohl lt CR gt

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I have this in my  vimrc   nnoremap    set invhlsearch lt CR gt    This way    will toggle search highlighting  Normally  the   key repeats the latest t T f F command  but I never really used that functionality  I find this setting much more useful  because I can change search highlighting on and off very quickly and can easily get a sense of where my search results are  at a glance

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noh    nohlsearch   noh lsearch        Stop the highlighting for the  hlsearch  option   It             is automatically turned back on when using a search             command  or setting the  hlsearch  option              This command doesn t work in an autocommand  because             the highlighting state is saved and restored when             executing autocommands  autocmd-searchpat               Same thing for when invoking a user function    I found it just under  help    which I keep hitting all the time  and which highlights all the words on the current page like the current one

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There is hlsearch and nohlsearch    help hlsearch will provide more information   If you want to bind F12 to toggle it on off you can use this   map      lt F12 gt     nohlsearch lt CR gt  imap     lt F12 gt     lt ESC gt  nohlsearch lt CR gt i vmap     lt F12 gt     lt ESC gt  nohlsearch lt CR gt gv

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lkjasdf has always been faster than  noh for me

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Then I prefer this   map   lt F12 gt   set hls  lt CR gt  imap  lt F12 gt   lt ESC gt  set hls  lt CR gt a vmap  lt F12 gt   lt ESC gt  set hls  lt CR gt gv   And why  Because it toggles the switch  if highlight is on  then pressing F12 turns it off  And vica versa  HTH

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Then I prefer this   map   lt F12 gt   set hls  lt CR gt  imap  lt F12 gt   lt ESC gt  set hls  lt CR gt a vmap  lt F12 gt   lt ESC gt  set hls  lt CR gt gv   And why  Because it toggles the switch  if highlight is on  then pressing F12 turns it off  And vica versa  HTH

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Just put this in your  vimrc     lt Ctrl-l gt  redraws the screen and removes any search highlighting  nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt C-l gt   nohl lt CR gt  lt C-l gt

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Then I prefer this   map   lt F12 gt   set hls  lt CR gt  imap  lt F12 gt   lt ESC gt  set hls  lt CR gt a vmap  lt F12 gt   lt ESC gt  set hls  lt CR gt gv   And why  Because it toggles the switch  if highlight is on  then pressing F12 turns it off  And vica versa  HTH

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I add the following mapping to my    vimrc  map e   sdfdskfxxxxy   And in ESC mode  I press e

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Also  if you want to have a toogle and be sure that the highlight will be reactivate for the next time you search something  you can use this  nmap  lt F12 gt   set hls  lt CR gt  nnoremap    set hls lt CR gt

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noh    nohlsearch   noh lsearch        Stop the highlighting for the  hlsearch  option   It             is automatically turned back on when using a search             command  or setting the  hlsearch  option              This command doesn t work in an autocommand  because             the highlighting state is saved and restored when             executing autocommands  autocmd-searchpat               Same thing for when invoking a user function    I found it just under  help    which I keep hitting all the time  and which highlights all the words on the current page like the current one

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lkjasdf has always been faster than  noh for me

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Also  if you want to have a toogle and be sure that the highlight will be reactivate for the next time you search something  you can use this  nmap  lt F12 gt   set hls  lt CR gt  nnoremap    set hls lt CR gt

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I have this in my  vimrc   nnoremap    set invhlsearch lt CR gt    This way    will toggle search highlighting  Normally  the   key repeats the latest t T f F command  but I never really used that functionality  I find this setting much more useful  because I can change search highlighting on and off very quickly and can easily get a sense of where my search results are  at a glance

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Make double- lt Esc gt  clear search highlights nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt Esc gt  lt Esc gt   lt Esc gt  nohlsearch lt CR gt  lt Esc gt

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lkjasdf has always been faster than  noh for me

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Just put this in your  vimrc     lt Ctrl-l gt  redraws the screen and removes any search highlighting  nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt C-l gt   nohl lt CR gt  lt C-l gt

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Append the following line to the end of your  vimrc to prevent highlighting altogether   set nohlsearch

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Then I prefer this   map   lt F12 gt   set hls  lt CR gt  imap  lt F12 gt   lt ESC gt  set hls  lt CR gt a vmap  lt F12 gt   lt ESC gt  set hls  lt CR gt gv   And why  Because it toggles the switch  if highlight is on  then pressing F12 turns it off  And vica versa  HTH

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I add the following mapping to my    vimrc  map e   sdfdskfxxxxy   And in ESC mode  I press e

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noh    nohlsearch   noh lsearch        Stop the highlighting for the  hlsearch  option   It             is automatically turned back on when using a search             command  or setting the  hlsearch  option              This command doesn t work in an autocommand  because             the highlighting state is saved and restored when             executing autocommands  autocmd-searchpat               Same thing for when invoking a user function    I found it just under  help    which I keep hitting all the time  and which highlights all the words on the current page like the current one

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I think this answer in  Vim clear last search highlighting  is better    let

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I think the best answer is to have a leader shortcut    lt leader gt c  nohl lt CR gt    Now whenever you have your document all junked up with highlighted terms  you just hit     C  I have my leader mapped to a comma   It works perfectly

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There is hlsearch and nohlsearch    help hlsearch will provide more information   If you want to bind F12 to toggle it on off you can use this   map      lt F12 gt     nohlsearch lt CR gt  imap     lt F12 gt     lt ESC gt  nohlsearch lt CR gt i vmap     lt F12 gt     lt ESC gt  nohlsearch lt CR gt gv

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Just put this in your  vimrc     lt Ctrl-l gt  redraws the screen and removes any search highlighting  nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt C-l gt   nohl lt CR gt  lt C-l gt

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I think the best answer is to have a leader shortcut    lt leader gt c  nohl lt CR gt    Now whenever you have your document all junked up with highlighted terms  you just hit     C  I have my leader mapped to a comma   It works perfectly

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noh  short for nohighlight  will do the trick

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There is hlsearch and nohlsearch    help hlsearch will provide more information   If you want to bind F12 to toggle it on off you can use this   map      lt F12 gt     nohlsearch lt CR gt  imap     lt F12 gt     lt ESC gt  nohlsearch lt CR gt i vmap     lt F12 gt     lt ESC gt  nohlsearch lt CR gt gv

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Just put this in your  vimrc     lt Ctrl-l gt  redraws the screen and removes any search highlighting  nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt C-l gt   nohl lt CR gt  lt C-l gt

User · Answer

Append the following line to the end of your  vimrc to prevent highlighting altogether   set nohlsearch

User · Answer

There is hlsearch and nohlsearch    help hlsearch will provide more information   If you want to bind F12 to toggle it on off you can use this   map      lt F12 gt     nohlsearch lt CR gt  imap     lt F12 gt     lt ESC gt  nohlsearch lt CR gt i vmap     lt F12 gt     lt ESC gt  nohlsearch lt CR gt gv

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I think this answer in  Vim clear last search highlighting  is better    let

User · Answer

noh    nohlsearch   noh lsearch        Stop the highlighting for the  hlsearch  option   It             is automatically turned back on when using a search             command  or setting the  hlsearch  option              This command doesn t work in an autocommand  because             the highlighting state is saved and restored when             executing autocommands  autocmd-searchpat               Same thing for when invoking a user function    I found it just under  help    which I keep hitting all the time  and which highlights all the words on the current page like the current one

User · Answer

Append the following line to the end of your  vimrc to prevent highlighting altogether   set nohlsearch

User · Answer

Make double- lt Esc gt  clear search highlights nnoremap  lt silent gt   lt Esc gt  lt Esc gt   lt Esc gt  nohlsearch lt CR gt  lt Esc gt

User · Answer

Append the following line to the end of your  vimrc to prevent highlighting altogether   set nohlsearch

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noh  short for nohighlight  will do the trick

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noh  short for nohighlight  will do the trick

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lkjasdf has always been faster than  noh for me

User · Answer

noh  short for nohighlight  will do the trick

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I search so often that I ve found it useful to map the underscore key to remove the search highlight   nnoremap  lt silent gt     nohl lt CR gt

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