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After I searched for a text with a pattern, all the matched text stays highlighted. How do I turn off the highlighting temporarily/permanently?

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After I searched for a text with a pattern, all the matched text stays highlighted. How do I turn off the highlighting temporarily/permanently?

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‘hlsearch’ option controls whether all the matches for the last searched pattern are highlighted or not. By default, this option is not enabled. If this option is set in a system-wide vimrc file, then you can turn off the search highlighting by using the following command: :set nohlsearch To temporarily turn off the search highlighting, use :nohlsearch You can also clear the search highlighting, by searching for a pattern that is not in the current file (for example, search for the pattern ‘asdf’). For more information, read :help ‘hlsearch’ :help :nohlsearch 11.2.