Get rid of Vim's highlight after searching text

Question

In VIM, after finding text with \"/\" command, that text remains highlighted.

What is the command to remove that? I don\'t want to remove highlighting capability at

Answer 1

Completely disable search highlights

:set nohlsearch

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Clear until next search

:nohlsearch

or :noh for short. This clears highlights until a new search is performed or n or N is pressed

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Clear on pressing custom map

• Clear highlights on hitting the ESC key

  nnoremap  :noh
  

• Clear highlights on pressing \ (backslash) twice

  nnoremap \\ :noh