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Use Safari to find things more easily in text files
Authored by: mr_dbr on Tue, May 6 2008 at 3:45PM PDT

You can assign a keyboard shortcut to toggle the hlsearch options:
map <F6> :se number!<CR>
map <F7> :set hlsearch!<CR>

in your ~/.vimrc file - then F6 will toggle line-numbers (Which is useful since copy/pasting breaks with line numbers on), and F7 to toggle highlight search