How to get rid of search highlight in Vim

I have :set hlsearch as default value.

When I search for something, search terms get highlighted. However many times I want to get rid of the highlight, so I do :set nohlsearch. In this way I get rid of highlights for the time being.

However if I do a new search, then search terms are not highlighted.

I would like to hit ESC + ESC to get rid of highlights and then set back :set hlsearch.

Any suggestions?

Try the :noh command.

vi/vim notes

I use

/pleasedisablehighlightthanks

command. Or just

/qewrufhiqwe

But you should be carefult not to mix this with the following command!

/qewrufhiqew