VI highlighting 'echo'

[Kevin Kempter]

if your last search was for echo (even i a previous session) this will 
be highlighted. edit the .vimrc file in your home directory and add the 
following line to completely turn off the highlight behavior for searching:
set nohlsearch



Sean wrote:

>On Wed, December 29, 2004 9:07 pm, Nifty Hat Mitch said:
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>>On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:56:05AM +0100, Maciek R. wrote:
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>>>I have no idea how I activated this ... but while writing some easy
>>>shell scripts the VI editor highlights the word 'echo' so the background
>>>is orange. How can I remove this option? I already used man vi and
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>Here's my guess...   somehow you pressed the number 8 key and holding
>shift, while your cursor was sitting on the word "echo".   This is the
>shortcut for search-for-word.   Now every time you load vi it is showing
>you your previous "search".    You can simply press   /    and then type a
>bunch of random keys as a search string.   Press ENTER and the word echo
>will no longer be highlighted every time you start vi.
>
>Cheers,
>Sean
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