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You should usevim-searchhi instead of searchant.vim. It fixes a bunch of longstanding bugs of searchant.vim and is overall more polished.

Vim plugin for improved search highlighting

When it comes to searching Vim is one of the editors which lacks the featureof highlighting the current search result. Searchant wraps the hacky way toachieve this in Vim into a plugin with a clean interface. Additionally itprovides a key mapping to stop the search highlighting.

View the documentation in Vim with:help searchant oron the web.

• Vim 7.0+

It is recommended to install this plugin using a plugin manager likepathogen.vim,Vundle.vim orvim-plug.

Alternatively you can just drop theplugin anddoc folders into your~/.vim directory. Don't forget to run:helptags ~/.vim/doc to generate thehelp tags after a manual installation.

If you are usingincsearch.vimand you'd likevim-searchant to play-nicely, you can add the following snippetto hide the searchant highlight:

" Disable Searchant highlight when incsearch.vim highlights also disableautocmdCursorMoved*callSearchantStop()functionSearchantStop()  :execute"normal\<Plug>SearchantStop"endfunction

This assumes that you havelet g:incsearch#auto_nohlsearch = 1 in your config.