NERDTree toggling and keyboard mapping

vim nerdtree
fcuk112 picture fcuk112 · Sep 17, 2009 · Viewed 20.6k times · Source

I have this line in my .vimrc:

nmap <silent> <Leader>p :NERDTreeToggle<CR>

So what is the hotkey for toggling NERDTree?

How do I remap it to CTRL-D?

what is the difference between nmap, map, nnoremap, inoremap, etc?

Answer

Ayman picture Ayman · Sep 17, 2009

to remap in normal mode use 

nmap <silent> <C-D> :NERDTreeToggle<CR>

nmap means map in normal mode
imap means map in insert mode

the nore part in nnoremap and its friends prevent expanding the mapping recursively. For example, i use to also hide search string so, in my vimrc I have 

nnoremap <silent> <C-L> :noh<CR><C-L>

Without the nore, the above mapping will loop.

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