Is it possible to not trigger my normal search highlighting when using search as a movement?
- by Nathan Long
When I do a search in vim, I like to have my results highlighted and super-visible, so I give them a bright yellow background and a black foreground in my .vimrc.
" When highlighting search terms, make sure text is contrasting colors
:highlight Search guibg=yellow guifg=black
(This is for GUI versions of vim, like MacVim or Gvim; for command-line, you'd use ctermbg and ctermfg.)
But I sometimes use search as a movement, as in c/\foo - "change from the cursor to the next occurrence of foo."
In that case, I don't want all the occurrences of foo to be highlighted.
Can I turn off highlighting in cases where search is used as a movement?
