Mapping snippets for Vim

Question

I'm struggling with setting up some mappings for Vim. I want to have a mapping to insert a line of text.

I've achieved this: nnoremap åfox oThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog<Esc>]<Space>j

It works fine, except for the last part. ]<Space> is mapped to create a new line without entering insert mode, and then the j goes one line down. This mapping comes from the vim unimpaired plugin.

The command ]<Space> works fine in the normal vim editor, when I do all step by step.

When I do it as a macro, I get problems when inserting the bracket after exiting insert mode, so I have to do the same command again. Here is how the macro is recorded. Note that I press the exact same combination twice, (ALT + 9), which is ]on my Swedish keyboard.

Are there any safer way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Though the recommendation is to use :noremap, because it makes the mapping immune to remapping and recursion, here this is hurting you.

In order to execute unimpaired's ]<Space> mapping, you have to use :nmap here (at least for the trailing part, but breaking this mapping up would just complicate things a lot, and there's little risk as the rest of the mapping just uses alphabetic letters and the standard <Esc> and j commands).

It's up to you whether you use unimpaired's ]Space default mapping or rather the internal <Plug>unimpairedBlankDown target; the latter would allow to change the plugin mapping without having to adapt this mapping, too.