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Vim's quirks in key layout

I like to insert blank lines without entering insert mode, and I used this keyboard shortcut:

nomap go o <esc>

This creates an empty string, but introduces some strange behavior. I have smart indentation and autoindent set. The newline follows the indentation, but does not remove it, although it does manually automatically remove the excess space. It also adds a single space where the cursor is each time.

Anyone have any ideas to explain this behavior?

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Vim is very literal in how you write your display commands - it actually handles space in your mapping before it is . In other words, your mapping does the following: <ESC> 

nnoremap go o<SPACE><ESC>

You have to change it to:



nnoremap go o<ESC>

And make sure you don't have any extra display spaces!

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I agree with "too much php". This is the relevant section from my .vimrc

nnoremap <A-o> o<ESC>k
nnoremap <A-O> O<ESC>j


I think this is faster, since you are returning the cursor on the original line (although not on the original character).

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As usual, the vim wiki has a handy tip: Quickly add and remove blank lines . Focus in set paste

before adding a new line and then set nopaste

. Also, this will set a mark to remember the cursor position and go back to where you were.

nnoremap go :set paste<CR>m`o<Esc>``:set nopaste<CR>
nnoremap gO :set paste<CR>m`O<Esc>``:set nopaste<CR>
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