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How to override some remapping in my .vimrc to edit Python properly

I code CSS and Python and for CSS I have the following little time saver

inoremap :      :;<Left>

This is great until I start coding in Python. Every time I hit : I get an unwanted ; I should mention that to make editing in Python pleasant with proper indentation I added 

~/.vim/ftplugin/python.vim

python.vim contains the following 

setlocal tabstop=4
setlocal softtabstop=4
setlocal shiftwidth=4
setlocal textwidth=80
setlocal smarttab
setlocal expandtab

What code would I put into python.vim to override inoremap : :;<Left> from my .vimrc so that when I press : all I get is a single :?

Solution 
  • You can put this in your python.vim:
   iunmap :

    As mentioned by Daan, you can also put the mapping for : in css specific vim file ( for example ~/.vim/syntax/css.vim )