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Unlike the other questions I found so far, I am aware of the role of the placeholders and actively using the features of vim-latex. However I'm finding it hard to find help customizing them. One feature that gets in my way very often is the automated replacement of {} to {}<++> (and similarly for () etc.) with the cursor placed between the brackets. I often need to type an empty bracket pair for a macro and it is very distracting to remember to use Ctrl+J every time instead of writing in a linear fashion. I am sure I will never want to type {} to fill in the contents and jump out later, it's always a deliberate empty pair that's meant to stay empty.

How can I selectively disable this mapping? I have tried

call IMAP('{}', '{}', "tex")

but this, albeit solving the problem as stated, creates a new one by inducing an unwanted delay at typing the opening bracket, which is even worse.

The Vee
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  • Not sure, but can you not simply add iunmap <buffer> {} to your after/ftplugin/tex.vim ? – marsupilam Jun 06 '17 at 14:21
  • @marsupilam Thanks! I just tried and it leads to "No such mapping". – The Vee Jun 06 '17 at 14:22
  • Right, that's because of the special IMAP function defined by the plugin (I don't know the first thing about vim-latex). Looking at the plugin's code in vim-latex/plugin/imaps.vim, I see there also is an IUNMAP function : " IUNMAP: Removes a "fake" insert mode mapping. function! IUNMAP(lhs, ft) Conclusion I would try call IUNMAP('{}',"tex") in the same after file. – marsupilam Jun 06 '17 at 14:32

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I completely forgot that I left this question open. I found a complete solution in the meantime. The command IUNMAP, as suggested in a comment by marsupilam, does what I want exactly, without the heavy implications of disabling more general blocks of features:

[~.vim/after/ftplugin/tex.vim]

...
call IUNMAP('{}', 'tex')
...

According to this post, the command was still a rather recent addition to Latex-Suite at the time of posting my question and marsupilam's proposition did not work for me, which is why I did not close the question earlier.

The Vee
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Set this in your command prompt (:)

let g:Imap_UsePlaceHolders = 0

You can find more information in this link

You can put this in your .vimrc or .gvimrc file

Herman Jaramillo
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