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Is it possible to not trigger my normal search highlighting when using search as a movement?

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Mar 15, 2026440 views
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Problem

When I do a search in vim, I like to have my results highlighted and super-visible, so I give them a bright yellow background and a black foreground in my . (This is for GUI versions of vim, like MacVim or Gvim; for command-line, you'd use and .) But I sometimes use search with a command, as in - "…

Error Output

" When highlighting search terms, make sure text is contrasting colors
:highlight Search guibg=yellow guifg=black

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These naive mappings seem to help. normal search Turn highlighting on before doing the search: motion search Turn highlighting off before doing the search: Note that you'd need to setup similar mapping for .

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