The cmdline blinks when running long string map key than screen width

Question

Hello, when i run a mapped key which has very long map string than my screen width, the cmdline always blinks, even adding "silent" parameter after nnoremap, it also doesn't work, and I really don't like it.

I wonder if there is any way to stop this blinking for such case?

It's really appreciated to look forward to your answer, thanks.

the below key map is for your reference, its map string is longer than my screen width.

nnoremap <silent> gT  :<c-u>
          \| if v:count == 0
          \|   exec 'normal gT'
          \| elseif v:count > tabpagenr('$')
          \|   tabmove
          \| elseif v:count >= tabpagenr()
          \|   exec 'tabmove' v:count
          \| elseif v:count < tabpagenr()
          \|   exec 'tabmove' v:count - 1
          \| endif
          \| <cr>

Answer 1

Hi,

Even without <silent> I can't notice the effect in xterm or st, but it's barely visible in vte sometimes (it's a sample terminal). What's your terminal and Vifm version? Terminal shouldn't make a difference here, but won't hurt to know it.

even adding "silent" parameter after nnoremap, it also doesn't work

Are you sure you're not defining the mapping more than once? You can try commenting out the part of vifmrc you're editing to see whether the mapping is still available (e.g., :nmap gT).

Defining a helper :command could be a workaround:

nnoremap gT :gT<cr>
command gT : if v:count == 0
          \|     execute 'normal gT'
          \| elseif v:count > tabpagenr('$')
          \|     tabmove
          \| elseif v:count >= tabpagenr()
          \|     execute 'tabmove' v:count
          \| elseif v:count < tabpagenr()
          \|     execute 'tabmove' v:count - 1
          \| endif

Comments

Hi,
I'm using the st terminal.

Anyway it works perfectly by following your workaround.
Thanks a lot.