On Saturday, March 3, 2012 12:07:18 PM UTC-6, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz 
wrote:
>
> If I want to map a function onto the same key in any mode, is this the
> best way of doing it? :
>
> map <silent> <F6> :nohlsearch<CR>
> imap <silent> <F6> <Esc>:nohlsearch<CR>i
>

Some suggestions:
* For insert mode, a better way would probably be <C-O> instead of <Esc>...i
* Use nnoremap and xnoremap instead of just "map" which gets normal, 
operator-pending, and visual modes. You probably want to use a <C-U> in the 
visual mode mapping to remove the range, and you probably don't want to do 
it at all in operator-pending mode.
* Either use inoremap, or keep using imap but simply use the normal-mode 
mapping instead of re-defining it on the RHS

For example:
nnoremap <silent> <F6> :nohlsearch<CR>
xnoremap <silent> <F6> :<C-U>nohlsearch<CR>
imap <silent> <F6> <C-O><F6>

Other than that...it should work fine the way you have it.

>

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