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6.11.1 ProblemSome of Vim's commands are long and complex, and you are amassing your own collection of custom commands, so you would like to create keyboard shortcuts for your most-used commands. 6.11.2 SolutionUse the map command to assign custom keystrokes to any command or text string. map creates keymappings for Normal mode; map! creates keymappings for Insert mode. To see your current set of mappings, type: :map or: :map!
Creating a new keymapping is done like this: :map <F3> :runtime! syntax/2html.vim This command adds HTML tags to the current document, in a new window. Now hitting F3 activates it. You can delete a map like this: :unmap <F3> You have to spell out the names of the Esc, <CR> (carriage return) and <F2>-<F12> keys, because if you simply press the keys they will execute whatever command is assigned to them. This example maps a command to F3 that goes into Insert mode, inserts an HTML tag around a word, and leaves off in Insert mode so you can continue typing: :map <F3> i<B><Esc>ea</B><Esc>a These are examples of Insert mode mappings for quickly adding HTML tags. They're fast, because you never leave Insert mode, and it's unlikely that such comma-letter combinations will come up in ordinary typing. :map! ,ah <A href=""> :map! ,a </A> :map! ,b <B><Esc>ea</B><Esc>a :map! ,i <I><Esc>ea</I><Esc>a :map! ,l <LI><Esc>ea</LI><Esc>a 6.11.3 DiscussionThe safest keys to use are F2-F12 and Shift-F2-F12. (F1 is mapped to Vim's help pages.) However, you'll use those up pretty quickly, so using combinations like comma-letter that usually do not occur in normal usage gives you the ability to create as many keymappings as you like. See :help map-which-keys for complete information on Vim's built-in keymappings. You can also query Vim's help for a specific key or combination: :help CTRL-V :help F5 :help /b Remember to spell out CTRL and F5; don't press the Ctrl and F5 keys. 6.11.4 See Also
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