Can I use SPACE as mapleader in VIM?

Question

From http://items.sjbach.com/319/configuring-vim-right I got that you were supposed to be able to use Space as the mapleader in vim. I\'ve tried but it does not s

Answer 1

The above solutions are great, however, nothing shows up in the bottom right command corner. If you don't have any use for the \ key anyway, try using map <SPACE> <leader> and \ will show up in the command corner. That and you don't have to unmap space first, as suggested in the commends above.

Answer 2

Try the following instead:

let mapleader=" "

And remember to write the following line before that, to make sure spacebar doesn't have any mapping beforehand:

nnoremap <SPACE> <Nop>

Answer 3

Mapleader is a Vim string variable. To use space as leader, you must escape the special character.

let mapleader = "\<Space>"

For more info see,

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/eval.html#expr-quote

EDIT:

This no longer works for me in my version of Vim. Even with the suggestion in the comments of unmapping the spacebar in normal mode by running nnoremap <SPACE> <Nop>.

I ending up going with the solution given in the answer below.

map <Space> <Leader>