Friday, September 16, 2011

Re: gvim unhighlight last search

On 09/16/11 11:50, Marty Fried wrote:
>> Often people map<c-l> to :nohl<cr><c-l>
>>
>> I'm just curious about this... I usually just type :noh, but thought this
> might be a good idea. However, I tried it, and it seemed to be recursive,
> as vim continually seemed to be repeating the command, and I was unable to
> enter any other commands, and had to close the window.
>
> I was able to do something similar which worked:
> map<c-l> :nohl<cr>:redr<cr>
>
> Did I do something wrong?

Sounds like you want :nnoremap instead of :nmap (the distinction
being precisely this case where it can trigger recursive expansion).

-tim


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