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I am used the vifm's hjkl key maps to navigate and open files. After installing NERDTree , I find it difficult as now the l key wont open file but will just move the pointer to the left( unlike in vifm where it opened the current file) .

So , I want to map some keys of NERDTree to give me vifm experience . How to do that?

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  • Do you mean hjkl (notice the case)? Based on this manual, I think that is what you mean, but I'm not certain.
    – Jake Grossman
    Oct 27, 2020 at 20:37
  • @JakeGrossman , Ya , I meant hjkl. Dont know why I put it in capital letters in the question! . Ya so basically I want to navigate though the files using vifm or ranger like commands
    – Jdeep
    Oct 28, 2020 at 7:56
  • @JakeGrossman , No actually my problem is not with vifm. It works fine. My problem is with NERDTree. Say for example I want to open a directory using NERDTree , then I have to press o to open it. But I want to map the o key to l key so that a directory opens when I click on l
    – Jdeep
    Oct 28, 2020 at 7:58

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if you look at the NERDTree manual, there is a section called NERDTreeMappings search for "Default Key: o", doing that will take you that particular mapping's description and the variable to remap that binding, the variable is named after the "Map setting:" part of the corresponding binding, which for "o" is:

Default key: o
Map setting: NERDTreeMapActivateNode

so to remap it you would put this in your .vimrc or init.vim

let NERDTreeMapActivateNode = 'i'

the value can be any binding that you would normally define in a vim map

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