That would be the variable org-highlight-sparse-tree-matches.

How to find it?

    M-x org-customize RET

    Open the "Org Structure" group
    Open the "Org Sparse Trees" group

    and there it is.

Or, alternatively

    M-x apropos-variable RET org.*highlight RET

HTH

- Carsten

On Mar 4, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Scott Randby wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Whenever a tag search is done, the beginning of the lines containing
> the desired tags are highlighted (in yellow with my setup). I can see
> why this is desired behavior, but I don't want my tag searches to
> highlight anything. First, I don't like the way the highlighting
> looks, and second, the highlighting forces me to do C-u C-c C-c twice
> if I want to recompute the values in a table. Being lazy, I only want
> to do C-u C-c C-c once.
>
> So, is there a way to set org-mode so that it won't highlight the
> results of a tag search? I've tried customizing various variables, but
> nothing I've tried works, and I can't find anything about this in the
> manual.
>
> Oh yes, I'm using org-mode 6.23 in emacs 22 though this has been an
> issue for me all the versions of org-mode I've used.
>
> Scott Randby
>
>
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