[TriLUG] need help from the vi gurus

[Mike Mueller]

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 08:20, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> Somehow I set 'vi' to highlight on a pattern of text, and I <snip> 
> cannot figure out how to unset it.

:nohl - turn off current highlights

See www.vim.org for documentation.  O'Reilly and New Riders are expensive 
dead tree versions of what you can find on-line.  I have O'Reilly, It's OK 
but not great.

highlighting searches is a configurable option

per session:
:set nohlsearch

per user:
edit ~/.vimrc
add this line:
set nohlsearch

what is configurable:
:set all
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Mike Mueller
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