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So I am using an alternate Keyboard layout on my Mac (Colemak) and I have vim remapped for colemak layout by editing the .vimrc file as such (just two lines so that you get the picture):

noremap y o  
noremap p r
... (and so on)

So now, in VIM when hitting the L key (on QWERTY layout) resembles I on colemak, it opens the Insert mode as it should. However, when I hit y y to yank a line, it instead executes y and then o. Do I need to remap y y to o now?

:map o yy

But that would mean that in editing mode an o would turn out y y, wouldn't it? Please correct me if I'm wrong and help me to solve this quirk.

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It looks like somewhere in your .vimrc file your y -> o mapping is made to only apply for operator-pending mode, since from what you wrote your first y registers as y.

You can work around this in a few ways:

  1. Unmap the key for operator mode only: 
    :ounmap y
  2. Map o -> yy to only normal mode (so it won't affect your editing): 
    :nnoremap o yy
  3. Just use Vim's native mapping for Y (or the Colemak equivalent of Y) to yank the entire line.
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