From b069f55faabc7b4a4e62b61c80425525523e33c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yash Karandikar <nerdstep710@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 23:06:43 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] hlsearch and incsearch

---
 .vimrc | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.vimrc b/.vimrc
index 6b73a5c..788eccb 100644
--- a/.vimrc
+++ b/.vimrc
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ set showtabline=2
 set number
 set expandtab
 set encoding=UTF-8
+set hlsearch
+set incsearch
 
 " install vim-plug if it's not installed already
 let data_dir = has('nvim') ? stdpath('data') . '/site' : '~/.vim'
@@ -41,6 +43,9 @@ map <C-z> :tabp<CR>
 map <C-x> :tabn<CR>
 map <C-c> :tabnew<CR>
 
+" keybinding for removing search highlights
+nnoremap \\ :noh<CR>
+
 " NERDTree settings
 nnoremap <C-t> :NERDTreeToggle<CR>
 let g:NERDTreeAutoDeleteBuffer = 1