reverting keymaps for location-list buffer

[Stephan Sahm]

Dear all,

I remapped <CR> and I really like my remapping. There are however some problems

For quickfix buffers I found this:

autocmd BufReadPost quickfix nnoremap <CR> <CR>

is there something similar for location-list buffers?

thanks in advance,

best,

Stephan

[John Beckett]

Stephan Sahm wrote:
> I remapped <CR> and I really like my remapping. There are
> however some problems For quickfix buffers I found this:
>
> autocmd BufReadPost quickfix nnoremap <CR> <CR>
>
> is there something similar for location-list buffers?

To make Enter work normally in a quickfix window, rather than
rely on auto commands, you can create file:

~/vimfiles/ftplugin/qf.vim

containing the single line:

nnoremap <buffer> <CR> <CR>

The above is all that is needed to make Enter behave as Enter
in quickfix and local-list buffers (in normal mode, which is
all you need).

John

[Stephan Sahm]

Dear John,

thank you very much for the answer and sorry for the doubled topic

(I was used to mailinglists and a kind of immediate feedback so got confused by the topic structure of google groups. I wrote a mail and meantime because of no response also posted a topic - where I still got no response. Hours later both were put online)

put the line into the mentioned file,

➜  ~  cat

​~/​

vimfiles/ftplugin/qf.vim 

nnoremap <buffer> <CR> <CR>​

 

but still get a "E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off" due to my remapping <CR> o<CR>, so it wasn't written back.

(this happens in a location-list window opened by syntastic)

is the vimfiles folder maybe wrong? must it be somewhere under .vim/ maybe?

best,

Stephan

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[John Beckett]

Stephan Sahm wrote:
> is the vimfiles folder maybe wrong?
> must it be somewhere under .vim/ maybe?

Sorry, my confusion. For a Unix-based system, create file
(you may have to create the directory first):

~/.vim/ftplugin/qf.vim

containing the single line:

nnoremap <buffer> <CR> <CR>

The above should make pressing Enter work as expected in
quickfix and local-list buffers. With the cursor in one of those
windows, enter the following command to see what mapping is in
effect, and where it was set. You only care about the "n" line
which is the mapping for normal mode.

:verbose map <CR>

John

[Stephan Sahm]

works like a charm - impressively easy solution =)

thank you very much and have a nice weekend,

best,

Stephan

John

[Stephan Sahm]

an afterglow:

is there a listing about which .vim file belongs to which standard feature? where have you known from that it is qf.vim?

[Ben Fritz]

On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 3:06:10 AM UTC-5, Stephan Sahm wrote:
> an afterglow:
> is there a listing about which .vim file belongs to which standard feature? where have you known from that it is qf.vim?
>
>

Every location list or error list is a "quickfix" list, which always has filetype of "qf".

Assuming you have filetype plugins turned on, placing a file "qf.vim" in the ftplugin folder, will make that file get sourced any time a buffer's filetype is set to "qf".

Thus, to override settings or mappings for locations lists or error lists, it is easy to do this using the "qf.vim" file.

[Stephan Sahm]

Dear Ben,

thank you very much for the explanation. One mystical thing less about vim =).

best wishes,

Stephan