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Ask HN: What do you use for clearing search highlighting in vim?

1 points by delwin ↗ HN
Sometimes I write notes to myself like "/why are you working at this hour, go to sleep already"

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gharbad
Knowing the people I work with, a comment like that might actually exist in the code..

Typically I use /^$^

I believe the proper way to do it is :noh

delwin
Aha! Didn't know there was dedicated command for it.
eof
i used do similar; but not the notes; just random banging followed by an enter/escape.

    /daljfdlkja <enter><escape>
now i don't use highlighting by default

from: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_all_search_pattern_match...

    " Press Space to turn off highlighting and clear any message already displayed.
    :nnoremap <silent> <Space> :nohlsearch<Bar>:echo<CR>