Highlight searches in Vim but not substitutions?

 

I know it's possible to stop Vim from highlighting on any search, but is there a way to make it highlight on regular searches but not, for instance, substitutions?

I will often highlight a block of text then do something like: 

:s/^/#/

to comment out the whole block. But then I have an ugly yellow bar running up and down the left side of my screen and I have to :noh every time to clear it.

I want highlighting to remain on regular /searches. Is this possible?

This doesn't answer your question fully but for me having the same problem it helped: I added this command to easily deactivate the highlighting after a search or a search-and-replace 

nnoremap <esc> :noh<return><esc>

(from Vim clear last search highlighting)

My solution: put this in your vimrc file 

set nohlsearch

noremap * :set hlsearch<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>*
noremap / :set hlsearch<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>/
noremap ? :set hlsearch<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>?

nnoremap <F4> :set invhlsearch<CR>
inoremap <F4> <ESC>:set invhlsearch<CR>gi
nnoremap <CR> :set nohlsearch<CR>

What it does:

  • Searches always enable highlights.
  • Use Enter to turn off highlights until the next search, but not the next substitute. Pressing Enter again will not turn them back on though.
  • Use F4 to turn off highlights until the next search, but not next substitute. Pressing F4 again will toggle the highlights for the last search pattern --- search OR substitute --- if there was one.

    • Some notes on highlights that are never really explained well:
    When the 'hlsearch' option is on, all future searches/substitutes will turn on "highlight visibility" . The current "highlight visibility" is not really an option you can directly query or set independently, but you can independently turn OFF highlight visibility with the command :nohlsearch (this is not the same as :set nohlsearch , because the next search will enable visibility again).

    In addition, whenever you run the command :set hlsearch there are two effects: It sets the option AND it makes vim forget if you've ever typed :nohlsearch . In other words, changing 'hlsearch' (either on or off) will force the current "highlight visibility" to logically match.

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