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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 308

Mapping the f keys to symbols not always working

I'm trying to map all the function keys to the corresponding symbols. This is what I have put in my .vimrc:

:noremap! <F1> !
:noremap <F1> !
:noremap! <F2> @
:noremap <F2> @
:noremap! <F3> #
:noremap <F3> #
:noremap! <F4> $
:noremap <F4> $
:noremap! <F5> %
:noremap <F5> %
:noremap! <F6> ^
:noremap <F6> ^
:noremap! <F7> &
:noremap <F7> &
:noremap! <F8> *
:noremap <F8> *
:noremap! <F9> (
:noremap <F9> (
:noremap! <F10> )
:noremap <F10> )
:noremap! <F11> _
:noremap <F11> _
:noremap! <F12> +
:noremap <F12> +

Although it works with the insert, command-line and replace modes it does not work e.g with the r,f and t commands. There appears to be no conflict when I check with the :map command.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 461

Answers (2)

kosciej16
kosciej16

Reputation: 7128

As Johnmastroberti pointed out, indeed you need to use lmap to achieve your goal.

The CTRL-^ trick actually controls iminsert variable. You can set it manually with

:set iminsert=1

But the problem you can struggle with is clever-f plugin as it replaces default f behaviour and (I can be wrong here but didn't find such option) do not allow to use lmapping.

Upvotes: 2

johnmastroberti
johnmastroberti

Reputation: 847

The vim help for f reads

f{char}         To [count]'th occurrence of {char} to the right.  The
            cursor is placed on {char} |inclusive|.
            {char} can be entered as a digraph |digraph-arg|.
            When 'encoding' is set to Unicode, composing
            characters may be used, see |utf-8-char-arg|.
            |:lmap| mappings apply to {char}.  The CTRL-^ command
            in Insert mode can be used to switch this on/off
            |i_CTRL-^|.

Based on this, I think you would need to also do

:lnoremap <F1> !
:lnoremap <F2> @
" etc

I also found that I had to use CTRL-^ in insert mode as the manual suggests before the mappings would apply to f and t (the default was to ignore the lmapings).

Upvotes: 2

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