How to cancel vim highlight after I "gd" on a word?

Question

I use "gd" on a word to highlight all its instance, fine. Then I wish these highlight should disappear because I don't want to be disturbed. Any vim command to dis-highlight last result?

Answer 1

You can use control + L or :call clearmatches()

Answer 2

You can use the function clearmatches or command noh to clear all highlights.

:noh

:call clearmatches()

I've got it re-maped in my .vimrc

noremap <leader>g :noh<cr>:call clearmatches()<cr>

From :h noh

Stop the highlighting for the 'hlsearch' option. It
is automatically turned back on when using a search
command, or setting the 'hlsearch' option.

Answer 3

Use nohlsearch command, or its short version nohls.