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Is there a way to disable a plugin (or a set of keymaps) on a specific filetype? vim-surround causes a delay in netrw when pressing d to create a new directory.
I'm thinking that this might be possible with an auto command that looks something like this:
autocmd Filetype netrw ...something...
There is an open issue here.
The surround plugin defines global mappings. Unfortunately, you can only override those with buffer-local ones, but not :unmap them only in the buffer. Temporarily disabling and re-defining the global surround mappings would be possible, but is cumbersome.
I think the best solution would be patching the netrw plugin to add the <nowait> argument to the d mapping (and all other buffer-local plugin mappings). This would fix the timeout issue, and you probably don't need to invoke the other (surround et al.) mappings on a netrw buffer, anyway.
Unfortunately, netrw's d mapping invokes a script-local function (:call <SID>NetrwMakeDir("")), so it's difficult to redefine the mapping with an :autocmd FileType netrw; you'd need the <SID> of netrw. So please suggest that enhancement to netrw's author, Chip Campbell; you'll find his address in the script header.
