Re: When is map useful (as apposed to noremap)

On 2014-05-07, James Wood wrote:
> If I understand correctly, map commands (nmap, imap...) allow the
> resulting action to be affected by any other key bindings that
> happen to have been made. On the other hand, their noremap
> counterparts act as if no other mappings have been made. I can't
> think of any situations where one would want the result to be
> affected by other bindings, since this would be very hard to
> maintain. Are plain maps used much? Why?

I don't know whether plain maps are used much, but here is one
example of their use from my ~/.vimrc.


" For the changelog.vim filetype plugin:
"
" Don't source it right away, but do so upon the Changelog
" opening mapping. This will also source our customizations
" ahead of it.
"
nmap <silent> <Leader>o :runtime! ftplugin/changelog.vim<CR><Leader>o


I wanted to have the <Leader>o mapping from the changelog.vim plugin
open a changelog file as it does after the plugin is sourced, but I
didn't want to source the plugin every time I opened Vim, partly as
a matter of principle and partly because of the time required by my
~/.vim/ftplugin/changelog.vim to find the appropriate changelog file.

Regards,
Gary

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