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From: James Darnley <james.darnley@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: vim yellow lines problem
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <336fc452-2081-66d8-47ad-a4325ddd835e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPhqJV2YwqcjcCXpVE-gauAq7tqec970ut23DOVLw16KF0bKPQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2018-10-09 10:49, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> I had a C program which I copy pasted and there were line numbers in code.
> So I replaced line numbers in vi by following command
> :%s/\d*.  (<-- last of * is a dot)
> 
> Now I am opening vim in cygwin then all typed lines are coming yellow.
> https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dxd8h.jpg
> 
> How do I fix this problem,

:noh or :nohlsearch

It looks like it is highlighting the matches of the last search you made
which was "digit class, 0 or more, and any char".

I would not expect Vim to highlight on opening a new file though, only
when you tell it to search.


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-09 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-09  8:50 Tapas Mishra
2018-10-09 11:33 ` James Darnley [this message]
2018-10-09 17:41   ` Greywolf

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