Get rid of Vim's highlight after searching text

In VIM, after finding text with "/" command, that text remains highlighted.

What is the command to remove that? I don't want to remove highlighting capability at all, but don't want to have all those bright text spots once I've found what I need.

Thanks.

Solution 1:

Type this:

:noh

Solution 2:

You can toggle it with

:set hls!

Of course a quick and dirty alternative is to do another search for gibberish:

/asdsad

I usually bind a key to :set hls! to make this easy and use the gibberish approach when I'm in vim on some machine I don't have my profile installed on.

Solution 3:

Completely disable search highlights

:set nohlsearch

Clear until next search

:nohlsearch

or :noh for short. This clears highlights until a new search is performed or n or N is pressed

Clear on pressing custom map

• Clear highlights on hitting the ESC key

  nnoremap <esc> :noh<return><esc>
  

• Clear highlights on pressing \ (backslash) twice

  nnoremap \\ :noh<return>
  

Solution 4:

I'm lazy and type something like /asdf then slap the RETURN key.

Solution 5:

I have this in my .vimrc:

map <leader>h :set hlsearch!<cr>

So when I type:

\h

It toggles highlighting on/off.