Question

After doing a search in Vim, I get all the occurrences highlighted. How can I disable that? I now do another search for something gibberish that can’t be found.

Is there a way to just temporarily disable the highlight and then re-enable it when needed again?

Answer 1

To turn off highlighting until the next search:

:noh 

Or turn off highlighting completely:

set nohlsearch 

Or, to toggle it:

set hlsearch!  nnoremap <F3> :set hlsearch!<CR>