Unmapping Vim Plugin mappings

Question

Is there a way to unmap mappings set by plugins? I'm currently calling exe ":mapclear" before my custom mappings in my .vimrc file, but the plugin files appear to be sourced after the vimrc file does. I have to resource my vimrc file again for it to work as expected.

I'm using Pathogen for sourcing plugins, which are all contained in my ~/.vim/bundle folder.

Answer 1

You could write the part with the mappings in your .vimrc in another file, say MyMaps.vim, and put this file in ~/.vim/after/plugin/. This should make your maps the default ones

Look also at the documentation of the plugins setting the mappings, some of them allow you redifine or deactivate the default mappings.