Vim: replace two characters in standby operation

Question

Using an exotic keyboard layout, I have to reassign g (among other things), which is on my layout, to position h on the classic qwerty layout. To do this, I decided to replace g with h with the following commands:

noremap gh noremap hg 

This does not work. For example, the input hh is treated as gh, not gg. Also, when g is pressed, g is displayed (with showcmd turned showcmd ), not h, and it seems that it does not account for reassignment, it acts like the g command. But when you press g again or wait for 1 second, it actually moves to the left.

I tried the following to make it standby operation

 onoremap gh onoremap hg 

but it does not change anything.

So why does it behave this way? And how to fix it?

Answer 1

The problem with multiple-key commands, such as gg (or the various <Cw> commands from which I remember a similar problem), is that they are not a g command, followed by the g operator. (Especially with the g prefix, there are a number of unrelated commands not found in the original vi in ​​this space.)

I am afraid you will have to define separate reprints for all of them:

 :nnoremap hh gg ...