Gary, Thank you for all you've said, including explaining. Roger all that! I fixed the 'set nocompatible' as you pointed out into my core .vimrc.
I echo'd "*map! <f1> <nop*" > f1test Next I did: "*/usr/bin/vim -N -u f1test --noplugin*" <F1> in CommandMode brought up help. Did ":q". Did 'i' for insert mode and <F1> and NADA!!! Very helpful directive troubleshooting. I then added "*map <f1> <nop*" into f1test; now it looks like: *map <F1> <Nop>map! <F1> <Nop>* Retried "*/usr/bin/vim -N -u f1test --noplugin*"--- and CommandMode/InsertMode attempts to <F1> properly FAIL! VOILA!! *My fallacy was that I KNEW everything else in my .vimrc was good to go---just needed one more little detail to 'work right'.* Ok, I'm off to layer back in my .vimrc content to find the real source of my problem. I'll follow up with what I find. Thank you, Gary (and everyone else who has helped)!! R, -Joe Wulf; *RHCSA(RHEL7), FITSP-D, CISSP, VCP3, CPO(USN/RET)*Tony Robbins: " *Management* is focusing on getting someone to get a result. *Leadership* is producing a standard in someone that when you’re gone, they will live by to produce higher level results consistently". On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 3:04 AM Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2022-01-21, Joseph Wulf wrote: > > Gary, > > > > I moved .vimrc out of the way. > > Executed "\vim" to negate my bash alias which does: "alias > vim='/usr/bin/vim > > -u ~/.vimrc'" > > > > I first did '<F1>' and got the help, and quit out of it ":q" > > I next did 'a' and then did '<F1>' and got the help, and quit out of it > ":q" > > > > The results from ":verbose map! <F1>" was "No mapping > found"---------same for " > > :verbose map <F1>. > > > > Thank you... I appreciate the help. > > I've spent a couple hours this evening browsing through the VIM > ":help".... to > > see what more I could learn. > > Joe, > > The point of the experiment was to try to discover what it is in > your setup that causes the insert- and command-mode mapping of <f1> > (i.e., "map! <f1> <nop>") to disappear or become ineffective. If > you move your ~/.vimrc out of the way, we don't learn anything. > > That said, it may not have been a very good experiment because the > :verbose command would not have said where F1 became unmapped. > (I'm experimenting with a very old 7.2.330 Vim on an even older > Ubuntu 10.04 system.) > > One approach would be to create a file, say f1test, put in this one > line: > > map! <f1> <nop> > > and start vim like this: > > /usr/bin/vim -N -u f1test > > Then see if typing the F1 while in insert mode still brings up help. > > If that works to stop F1 from bringing up help, then slowly add > lines to f1test from your ~/.vimrc until it fails. > > If that doesn't work, then it may be a plugin. You can start Vim as > > /usr/bin/vim -N -u f1test --noplugin > > to see if that works. > > I did see something in your ~/.vimrc that you should change. > I don't know whether or not it affects this problem, but it will > likely cause other problems. You have > > set nocompatible > > in the middle of that file. It should be at the very top, the first > thing executed. See > > :help 'compatible' > > Regards, > Gary > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20220121080435.GC14109%40phoenix > . > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAJ8cad-Y43XFgW%2BTfXSZVXT-wtJBxYQskVe_WziOULbNrQtcDA%40mail.gmail.com.
