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I like having hlsearch on, but find it annoying in insert mode. So I tried doing the following autocommand to disable it whenever I enter insert mode:
autocmd InsertEnter * nohlsearch
For whatever reason, this does not work. So that I could verify this wasn't a problem with my .vimrc, I tried this after launching vim with
gvim -u NORC
Any help debugging this would be greatly appreciated! I'm using gvim version 7.4.1023 on windows.
:nohlsearch doesn't work inside an autocommand, as explained in :help :nohlsearch:
Stop the highlighting for the 'hlsearch' option. It is automatically turned back on when using a search command, or setting the 'hlsearch' option. This command doesn't work in an autocommand, because the highlighting state is saved and restored when executing autocommands. Same thing for when invoking a user function.
In vim-cool, I worked around that "issue" by using :set nohlsearch.
* :no?