Re: help - isearch highlits my buffer into a sort of Christmas tree

[Christopher J. White]

>>>>> "nospam55" == nospam55  <nospa@no.yahoo.no> writes:

nospam55> Hi
nospam55> when I say e.g. 

nospam55>   C-s a

nospam55> my new emacs highlights every visible occurrence of 'a' ,

I find this a very useful feature, but I'm usually searching
for more complex strings than 'a'  ;-)

nospam55> I would like to disable this behavior.

Here's how I found the answer to your your problem:

 apropos "highlight"
 search for "isearch"
 C-h v "isearch-lazy-highlight"

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