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I want to bring some magic to my configuration but it fails to work because it seems Vim refuses to imap to a key in main keyboard. For example:

imap a bcd

I know most of time that's insane, but I have use case for that. Is there any switch for that so that I can turn this off?

Here is my Vim version:

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Mar 31 2015 23:36:07)
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  • What do you mean by "refuse"? What happens exactly?
    – romainl
    Jul 29, 2015 at 7:23
  • @romainl just an a gets input in my example.
    – Jason Hu
    Jul 29, 2015 at 11:57

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I found the reason. I have set paste in my .vimrc, and according to the doc (:h paste) this option disable mappings in insert mode:

When the 'paste' option is switched on (also when it was already on): mapping in Insert mode and Command-line mode is disabled

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