> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com
> <mailto:vim@tim.thechases.com>> wrote:
>
> On 09/16/11 11:50, Marty Fried wrote:
>
> Often people map<c-l> to :nohl<cr><c-l>
>
> I'm just curious about this... I usually just type :noh, but
> thought this
>
> might be a good idea. However, I tried it, and it seemed to be
> recursive,
> as vim continually seemed to be repeating the command, and I was
> unable to
> enter any other commands, and had to close the window.
>
> I was able to do something similar which worked:
> map<c-l> :nohl<cr>:redr<cr>
>
> Did I do something wrong?
>
>
> Sounds like you want :nnoremap instead of :nmap (the distinction
> being precisely this case where it can trigger recursive expansion).
>
> Thanks, learned something new. I'm not a heavy user of key mapping, so
> I hadn't had to learn that one yet.
>
> -Marty
Always use nnoremap, inoremap, etc unless you have a good reason not to!
Otherwise even if it works fine, at a later point you may add a mapping
that will be triggered by one of the keys in map you've created.
-ak
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