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hey guys. for some reason now when i'm using vim, everything is highlighted--not like color coded, but just highlighted in this ugly green color so that I can't see syntax color coding anymore. I don't remember typing in any commands that would cause this to happen. any ideas on how to fix it?
Highlighting usually occurs when you try a locate (/ or ?). Maybe you did a locate for some global pattern accidentially? Try doing /qwerty to locate qwerty. So long as it isn't in the file that should remove the highlighting if that is why it is on. Vim seems to remember the last locate in the file the next time you pull it up.
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