On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> 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

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