After performing a search for a common word, you end up with that word
highlighted all over the place. To turn it off, I generally use the set
command with no
prepended to the hlsearch
option – as is convention in
Vim.
It turns out though, that nohlsearch
is a command in its own right. I can
save a few characters by invoking:
:nohlsearch
See :h nohlsearch
for more details.