Newbie question on VI

zirtik · 04-09-2009, 02:37 PM

Hi,

I have recently started using vim and when I was editing a bash script I accidentally did something that I'm not sure what exactly it was, and then all occurrences of the word "PBS" got highlighted. I couldn't find out how I did this or how I can get rid of it, whenever I type PBS, it is highlighted now. Can anyone tell me how this might have happened and how I can take it back?

I'm attaching a screen shot...

Thanks in advance.

indienick · 04-09-2009, 03:13 PM

I'm more of an Emacs junkie, but I have had the same thing happen to me when I have had to use vim - I think it is the "#" command...not entirely sure, though.

The same thing happens to me in Emacs, on occasion, when I want to go "C-x, C-s" to save, and I accidentally hit "C-s" first, in which case I just hit Esc three times to exit the active minibuffer command, but I do not know how to do that with vim.

farslayer · 04-09-2009, 03:31 PM

Theres a nice vim tutorial HERE

hls = High Light Search

:set hls!
/searchterm

all instances of the search term will be highlighted.

You may have hls enabled in your .vimrc

zirtik · 04-09-2009, 04:29 PM

Thanks a lot for the really swift response. You were right, it was hls