Re: mapleader question

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:47 PM, stosss <stosss@gmail.com> wrote:

I might just not understand the question. Let me try again:

> My question is this:
>
> I see some examples in email here that show:
>
> <Leader>A
>
> or some other character besides A
>
> what key do I use if my map looks like that?

Unless you have changed the leader key using the mapleader=X command,
then you would type:
\A

> right now some of my maps actually have \ as the first key to press
> some have the F key or Shift F key.

If you haven't changed the leader key, then you would press
\\
in the first instance.

<Leader> is just a way to say: "whatever leader key I have defined"
and so is used by plugins and the like to do keymapping so they can
adapt to whatever leader you have defined.

Could you post a couple of the maps you are talking about? Because "X
is the first key to press" is ambiguous: do you mean X is the key that
is mapped or X is the key that is to be pressed after pressing the
<Leader>? As it stands, you could mean
map F foobar
OR
map <Leader>F foobar

> Why are some maps set up like so:
>
> <Leader>A

So that the code is portable (see above). For instance, I can drop
nnoremap <Leader>A foo
into my code and it works fine no matter what leader key I have
defined (I use the comma), so I would press
,A
where you would, if you haven't changed it, press
\A

c
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Chris Lott <chris@chrislott.org>

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