From 4195ef571e28869e25427cd09700d2691fd0bd9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Rahm <rahm@google.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:14:10 +0000
Subject: Change how clearing highlighting works after InsertLeave.

When using feedkeys(), it was causing problems with Ctrl-O in insert.
Now it disables hlsearch, and reenables it when searching or using n/N.
---
 init.vim | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init.vim b/init.vim
index bca3c9d..1445e6e 100644
--- a/init.vim
+++ b/init.vim
@@ -166,10 +166,8 @@ augroup InitVim
   au!
   " Automatically stop highligting things when leaving insert mode. If I want
   " the highlight back, I can just hit 'n' and it will come back.
-  "
-  " I don't know why it can't just be 'noh' and why I have to do this feedkeys
-  " nonsense, but there appears to be a bug of some kind.
-  autocmd InsertLeave * call feedkeys("\<cmd>noh\<cr>")
+  autocmd InsertLeave * set nohlsearch | redraw
+  autocmd CmdlineEnter /,\? set hlsearch
 
   autocmd TextYankPost *
         \ lua require'vim.hl'.on_yank(
@@ -178,6 +176,8 @@ augroup InitVim
   " autocmd CursorHoldI * lua vim.lsp.buf.document_highlight()
   " autocmd CursorMoved * lua vim.lsp.buf.clear_references()
 augroup END
+nnoremap <silent> n <cmd>set hlsearch<CR>n
+nnoremap <silent> N <cmd>set hlsearch<CR>N
 
 " Local configuration that can be set by hostname or just a local configuration.
 " Local files are ignored by .gitignore so they won't be added to the repo,
-- 
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