init.lua - Remove default mapping recursively

Question

I want to use the i_CTRL-G mapping to abort the current cmp selection, but i_CTRL-G is already used by neovim.

I tried to delete the mapping with this:

vim.keymap.del('i', '<C-g>')

But it just said: E31: No such mapping

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Any ideas how to do this? :)

Answer 1

There are no call that delete all the mapping that starts with a list of input. You have to delete all the mapping individually.

In your example you have to do:

vim.keymap.del('i', '<C-g>S')

Or:

vim.api.nvim_del_keymap('i', '<C-g>S')

Answer 2

You can configure the vim-surround plugin to not create this insert mode mapping, by setting the following variable in your initialization script (assuming Vim here):

let g:surround_no_insert_mappings=1

Then you don't need to delete the mapping later on.

Taken from the plugin source