Vim: When sourcing vimrc, last search hl re
The title pretty much says it all. When I :source $MYVIMRC or :source ~/.vimrc , the last search re-appears. I can easily turn this off again with :noh , but it re-appears every time I :source .
This persists
.vimrc vim I have checked in every file listed with :version , and other than my .vimrc , the only other file listed that isn't empty is $VIM/vimrc - which has only:
set nocompatible
set backspace+=indent,eol,start
set langmenu=none
I also tried the nuclear method: disable all plugins and pretend it's a fresh install:
mv .vim .vim-old
mv .vimrc .vimrc-old
touch .vimrc
echo "set hlsearch" > .vimrc
The issue still occurs.
I'm pretty stumped as I don't recall this being the normal behavior; any help would be much appreciated.
Credit to @AndyRay - I was misusing noh to get rid of the last search's highlighting, when instead I should be overriding the search term with :let @/ = "" .
See: Vim clear last search highlighting
Going off what Josh was getting at. Add the following to your ~./vimrc :
" higlight search but not when sourcing .vimrc
set hls
let @/ = ""