I am implementing a custom text object in visual mode, but this text object uses regular expressions to find the beginning and ending of the selection. However, when I do this, other parts of the text are also hilighted. As an additional problem, the searches are added to my search history.How can these two things be avoided?EDITI'm trying to creating a visual-mode text object, determining the start and end position using the search backward (?) and search forward (/) operators, similar to the following (the regular expression is just a test for now).vnoremap ue ?[^a-zA-Z0-9]\\|^<cr>v/[a-zA-Z0-9]\+/e<cr>When ue is pressed in visual mode:The above searches backwards for a character that is not a-z, A-Z or 0-9 or until the beginning of the line. This is the text ?[^a-zA-Z0-9]\\|^<cr>.It then enters visual mode with v.It then searches forward for the last character that is a-z, A-Z or 0-9. This is text /[a-zA-Z0-9]\+/e<cr>.The above works fine, but ends up highlighting all characters in the last search expression (step 3). I've tried appending :noh<cr> to the mapping, but this causes the selection to be lost. How can I fix this?
How can you turn off text highlighting (hlsearch) with custom text objects?
cursor motions;visual mode
After you turn off search highlighting, use gv to reselect the previous visual selection.