Once I got the word with # or * how can go backward that command to not highlight the words.
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Emmanuel
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This command doesn't has anything to undo, i belive. – The Dreams Wind Apr 20 '22 at 15:45
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1See `:help jumplist` and the commands `:help CTRL_O` and it's counterpart `:help CTRL_I`. To toggle highlighting, you can put this in your .vimrc: `nnoremap
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1CTRL_O to undo the cursor movement. `/lkj;l;kj` to undo the highlighting. – William Pursell Apr 20 '22 at 16:04
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1`:nohlsearch` is probably the "correct" way to turn off the highlighting, but searching for a random string works, too. – William Pursell Apr 20 '22 at 16:05
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What is your goal, here?
If you want to go back to the previous match, then you could use * after a # or # after a *, or maybe :help ctrl-o as a direction-agnostic alternative.
If you want to stay where you are but disable the search highlighting, then the proper way is to use :help :nohlsearch. This is sadly cumbersome and there is no built-in way to do that automatically so vimmers have come up with many workarounds like the one suggested by @mattb in the comments. There are also a couple of plugins for that.
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