vim yellow lines problem

[James Darnley]

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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