Disable (Or Toggle) Text Search Result Highlights In Vim and Neovim
## Turning Highlights Off
Neovim/Vim highlights all the matching results when you do a text search in a file buffer. You can hide the highlights after the search with `:noh` but that's a pain to do every time. To disable them full time, add this to your `~/.config/nvim/init.vim` or `~/.vimrc` config file:
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set nohlsearch
## Toggling Highlights
Another option is to toggle the highlights on and off. Instead of using `set nohlsearch`, this can be done by adding the following to your config file:
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set hlsearch!
nnoremap <F5> :set hlsearch!<CR>
With that in place, hitting `F5` will switch showing highlights on and off.
## One File Only
You can also run those commands directly in a single file buffer (prepended by a `:`) to apply to just that buffer. That is:
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:set nohlsearch
and
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set hlsearch!
nnoremap <F5> :set hlsearch!<CR>