ujihisa/vim-scala — comment on commit 064683a1c53de2753f8dc2dad4f102e45f5413e7
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By derekwyatt:

Where have you read that? nmap means map in normal mode. noremap is used to map something where something being mapped to already has some mapping. See :h recursive_mapping.

This is staying the way it is unless you can enlighten me.