Can you have file type-specific key bindings in Vim?

Question

In my .vimrc file, I have a key binding for commenting out that inserts double slashes (//) at the start of a line:

" the mappi         


        

Answer 1

You can use :map ... to make a local mapping just for the active buffer. This requires that your Vim was compiled with +localmap.

So you can do something like

autocmd FileType python map   ...