Vim mapping for .vimrc only

Question

I know about

autocmd FileType <TYPE> inoremap <MAPPING> 

for files like *.html. But i would like to create some keybinds for within my .vimrc like this:

autocmd FileType vimrc inoremap ;; autocmd<Space>FileType ...

This should obviously only work inside the vimrc File as it does not make sense elsewhere. Using vimrc as FileType does not work though. Any suggestions?

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EDIT:

I have also tried

au Bufread,BufNewFile *.vimrc setfiletype vimrc

and

au Bufread,BufNewFile .vimrc setfiletype vimrc

which works fine for some custom filetypes I use, but not for .vimrc. I am aware that dot-files are not the same as file endings, but it was worth a shot.

Answer 1

You're almost there.

First, you need to know that unless you are creating a new filetype (for example, as a subtype of the vim filetype) there is no "vimrc" filetype. .vimrc files are Vim scripts, and should already automatically be detected as such.

This means you want to use one of the autocmd triggers in the last half of your question, but with the command in the first half. You also probably want to make the mapping buffer-local:

au Bufread,BufNewFile .vimrc inoremap <buffer> ;; autocmd<Space>FileType ...

See: :help :map-<buffer>