Issues with nohlsearch keybind and "/" searches + "f" searches

[DominikMendel]

I have a pretty common keybind in only normal mode

["<Esc>"] = { "<cmd>nohlsearch<CR>" }

But this doesn't work with Flash's f or t search highlighting.
However, if I remove this keybind, then f / t search highlighting is removed with Esc, but then I lose the Esc = nohlsearch for / searches.
I can't seem to get Esc to remove highlighting for BOTH / searches and f searches.
Any help here?

[andradei]

By default, Flash clears it's labels and highlights on <Esc> keypress, so you just need make sure <Esc> is programmatically pressed when you physically do it.

["<Esc>"] = { "<cmd>nohlsearch<CR>" } remaps ESC and Neovim will never see it pressed again unless you add it explicitly:

["<Esc>"] = { "<cmd>nohlsearch<CR><Esc>" }

Now Neovim will clear search highlights and receive the <Esc> keypress that Flash can detect.

Source code that does it (as far as I can tell):

flash.nvim/lua/flash/plugins/char.lua

Line 152 in 3c94266

M.state:hide()