I often forget the exact syntax for writing a quick shortcut in in vim/neovim. After hunting for several minutes this morning I made a decision to memorialize the approach. Usually it’s for a simple command like running tests in an Elixir mix console:
:nnoremap ,e :!mix test<CR>So the first n means it applies just to normal mode. The noremap means it won’t follow any other mapping so it’s
non-recursive. The ,e is the what the shortcut is mapped to. And finally the :!mix test<CR> puts the mix command
into the terminal and hits a carriage return to execute the command.