Oh wow, the whole thread is just people suggesting alternatives!! OP - enjoy your neovim and don’t listen to the rest. It’s a terrific editor and will be around for many decades more.

Nice!

Just to clarify - means two taps of the esc key in succession will clear highlighting (ps I’m curious how other people do it!).

nmap <esc><esc> :noh<return>

Yes, I also have caps mapped to esc, but done in keyboard firmware so that holding it functions as ctrl.

In neovim I have two escapes mapped to :noh