somewhat OT ... in parts

[Devin Teske]

On Jan 3, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Polytropon wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:27:38 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>> 	one question I have may solve the problem of vim displaying
>> 	all the ^/search terms and displaying them in some color. 
>> 	the default brown is awful, but dark blue isn't much bbetter.
> 
> If you try :colorscheme blue you can see that the results have
> orange background with dark text (maybe black?), while the editor
> background is blue (as the name of the color scheme suggests).
> 
> 
> 
>> 	So: can I add something to my ~/.vimrc that =limits=
>> 	the "search" to displaying one term?  if I am searching for,
>> 	say, "the" or I guess /\<the\>, I dont want every "the" in my 
>> 	file.  I want only  one.   or one at a time, and not necessarily
>> 	in color.
> 
> If you have :set hlsearch activated, all (visible) matches will
> be highlighted,

:set hls
:set nohls

for short to enable/disable (respectively).


> and the cursor will be placed at the first match.
> 

On a side note, there's also :set incsearch

That will make you jump ahead as you type (I personally don't care for it).


> I don't see an option to highlight the _next_ result only. However,
> if you do _not_ set hlsearch, searching and continuing searching
> will not highlight anything, instead let the cursor skip to the
> next match (tried here with "gvim /COPYRIGHT", /this, /, /, / and
> so on), with :set nohlsearch for testing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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