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intermediate Tip #643: Disable built-in command

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created:   January 26, 2004 12:41      complexity:   intermediate
author:   Alfvaen      as of Vim:   5.7


If there's a built-in key command in vim that you just can't stand, find annoying, and/or often hit by accident(for me it's "K", with ">" a close second), then you can disable it using ":map".  You can't use ":unmap", as you might think.  Instead, you can map it to nothing, like:

:map K <Nop>

(<Nop> is not the "Nop" key on your keyboards, but literal letters inside literal pointy brackets.)

Of course, you can always

:unmap K

if you start doing C programming and want to instantly "man" things under the cursor again.

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