Is it possible to not trigger my normal search highlighting when using search as a movement?

Posted by Nathan Long on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Nathan Long
Published on 2011-02-10T14:29:58Z Indexed on 2011/02/10 15:27 UTC
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When I do a search in vim, I like to have my results highlighted and super-visible, so I give them a bright yellow background and a black foreground in my .vimrc.

" When highlighting search terms, make sure text is contrasting colors
:highlight Search guibg=yellow guifg=black

(This is for GUI versions of vim, like MacVim or Gvim; for command-line, you'd use ctermbg and ctermfg.)

But I sometimes use search as a movement, as in c/\foo - "change from the cursor to the next occurrence of foo."

In that case, I don't want all the occurrences of foo to be highlighted.

Can I turn off highlighting in cases where search is used as a movement?

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