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Remapping of vim direction keys is not honored by viewport navigation

I am using colemak and thus I have remapped my direction keys like so

noremap n h
noremap e j
noremap i k
noremap o l

noremap h n
noremap j e
noremap k i
noremap l o

The problem is that these keybindings are not honored by the viewport navigation. Eg. when I press ^w+n I want to shift focus to the viewport to the left but instead a new empty viewport is opened.

How can I help rebinding all the viewport navigation keys individually?

Solution

  • I think you'll have to map the <C-W> window navigation commands explicitly, by doing something like:

    noremap <C-W>n <C-W>h
noremap <C-W>e <C-W>j
noremap <C-W>i <C-W>k
noremap <C-W>o <C-W>l

noremap <C-W>h <C-W>n
noremap <C-W>j <C-W>e
noremap <C-W>k <C-W>i
noremap <C-W>l <C-W>o