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I'm using these two binding for indentation and dedentation of a visual selected block of text.

" Indentation
vmap <TAB>  >gv

" Dedentation
vmap <S-TAB>    <gv

When I dedent with my binding everything is fine, but if I try to indent with <Tab> the text gets deleted. I am not using any plugins and this is my vimrc:

"-----------------------------------------------
" my .VIMRC, the root                           |
"-----------------------------------------------
" only if not set before:
" use vim-defaults instead
" of vi-defaults (easier, more user friendly)
if &compatible          
  set nocompatible      
endif

syntax on
set relativenumber  " hybrid
set number      " hybrid
set mouse=a


set shell=/bin/bash


"case-insensitive searching
set ignorecase

set smartcase


" Disable audible/visual bells
set noerrorbells
set novisualbell
set t_vb=


" setting formating stuff
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set autoindent


"show matching pairs -> () [] {}
set showmatch


" copy to clipboard
noremap <C-y> "+y


" paste from clipboard
noremap <C-p> "+p


" Indentation
vmap <TAB>  >gv


" Dedentation
vmap <S-TAB>    <gv

The version I'm using is VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 . Does anyone have the same problem or have an idea where the root of this problem is?

D. Ben Knoble
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hmaier
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    Try xnoremap—vmap is probably not what you want. cf. How to debug my vimrc, How to debug a mapping – D. Ben Knoble Jul 19 '22 at 14:05
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    I have tested on Vim and gVim 9.00 on Windows and it seems to work fine for me :-|. Maybe should you give us more indication. What is the text that you select. What is the result after hitting tab in Visual mode. – Vivian De Smedt Jul 19 '22 at 16:16
  • @VivianDeSmedt It occured at any kind of text. When I hit tab, I'm tabbing in deleting the selected text and going in insert-mode. – hmaier Jul 20 '22 at 08:35
  • I have tried to reproduce your problem with the three type of Visual mode (Visual, Visual-Block, Visual-Line) it works fine on my Windows box with Vim 9.00 and on my Ubuntu box with Vim 8.2. Maybe could you try to start vim without .vimrc: vim -u NONE -i NONE enter the map command in the vim command mode : and try to reproduce the problem. – Vivian De Smedt Jul 20 '22 at 08:56
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    The answer explains why @VivianDeSmedt couldn't reproduce: likely the RHS of the mapping triggered another mapping that they didn't have (or that vim -u NONE -i NONE doesn't have). – D. Ben Knoble Jul 20 '22 at 13:55

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Instead of using vmap which is recursivly and works in select- and visual-mode, I switched to xnoremap which isn't recursivly and restricts to only visual mode. Now it works fine!

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