How to search in the Vim mapping listing?

Question

Using :map provides a list of all mappings in Vim. But, I am unable to search through the list. I am surprised to see it being opened in a different type of window

Answer 1

Vim uses its internal pager to display the output of :map, which has pretty limited functionalities (see :h pager for more info).

If you want to access the output of :map in a normal vim buffer, you could use :redir :

:redir @a>    " redirect output to register a
:map
:redir END
:put a        " paste the output of :map in the current buffer

Note that you can redirect to a file, to a variable, etc... See :h redir for more details.