Cancel the select pattern in VIM

Question

When I try to search some words in a article, it would highlight the pattern. After I have already found what I want, what should I do to cancel the select pattern, which means I don't want the words to be highlighted.

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possible duplicate of [How to get rid of search highlight in vim](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352242/how-to-get-rid-of-search-highlight-in-vim) — msw, Jul 27 '10 at 09:32
possible duplicate of [vim clear last search highlighting](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/657447/vim-clear-last-search-highlighting) — , Jul 27 '10 at 09:58

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 27 '10 at 09:19

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The command you want is :nohl.

answered Jul 27 '10 at 09:19

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 27 '10 at 09:24

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Before I turned search highlighting off permanently, /sdjrgjlsfj was my preferred command.

answered Jul 27 '10 at 09:24

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+1. And I still do it, when working in the environment without my .vimrc. – Dummy00001 Jul 27 '10 at 12:06
This is what I am doing now, I want to know is there a better methond – Yongwei Xing Jul 28 '10 at 08:08
:nohl would be better, search for non-exist pattern might be ridiculously slow when the file is huge. – DenMark May 27 '14 at 03:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '10 at 11:49

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I've mapped ESC-u to do this (like the less command):

nnoremap <ESC>u :nohlsearch<CR>

I learned that from this page: http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/make-vim-hlsearch-like-less.html

answered Jul 27 '10 at 11:49

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Cancel the select pattern in VIM

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