silly question about the vi editor

how do i remove highlighting after a search?

[jamie]

hi,

i am quite embarassed to ask this 'cos i reckon it is a really simple matter ;-)

but once i have searched for a pattern in VI this pattern is then highlighted not only in the current file, but also in all subsequent files which i open with VI.

i end up having to search for /zyx, so that it can't find the pattern and therefore does not highlight ;-)

many thanks

[littleman]

The command to turn off highlights is ':noh', but if you are using vim you can do a key map.
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[bird]

When I want to get rid of such a selection, what I normally do is to perform a dummy search for a pattern that isn't present in the current file (eg. just as many backslashes as necessary). That way, I don't need to explitily turn highlights on again for the next real search.

[jamie]

thanks guys :-)