inoremap in vim

inoremap stands for Insert-mode Non-recursive Map. It is a really helpful command in vim which helps you to map things in Insert-mode. For example, if you want to insert Hello world, using \a in Insert mode, You can have a code like below:

inoremap <Leader>a Hello world

In the example above:

• <leader>: your leader key, usually: \

Or if you want to exit the Insert-mode using jj, you can have something like this:

inoremap jj <Esc>

For convenience, you can put these codes in your vim config. One of the vim config files that you can edit is: ~/.vimrc.

How I use it

I really like to have my headers in markdown centered, and have their own colors. In order to do that, I have set some inoremaps to help me:

inoremap <Leader>h1 # <div style="text-align: center; color: cyan"></div><Esc>F<i
inoremap <Leader>h2 ## <div style="text-align: center; color: lime"></div><Esc>F<i
inoremap <Leader>h3 ### <div style="text-align: center; color: lightsalmon"></div><Esc>F<i

In the codes above:

• <Leader>: \
• <Esc>: exit the insert mode
• F<: backward finds the <
• i: enters insert mode again

So, right now, anytime that I want to insert a header, I can make sure that I am in insert mode and type on of the following:

• \h1: header 1
• \h2: header 2
• \h3: header 3

Config in Pycharm

For normal vim, we could have put our codes in ~/.vimrc. For vim plugin in Pycharm, the only thing that we should do is to put it in ~/.ideavimrc.