I use Vim's built-in Netrw file browser to browse my files. I've noticed that it's good for most things that I use a file browser for. Occasionally I use a simple fuzzy finder, if I'm working on a project and switching between files instead of having lots of windows open, but it does require me to know the file names ahead of time. Vim being Vim, Netrw has a lot keybindings and motions. This is fine, most of the time, because you can learn new features as you need them. Sometimes, though, you can make mistakes. I can confidently say that all Vim users have experienced total confusion at least once in their time using the text editor.

That being said, Netrw has a feature that allows you to mark files within a directory view (marking allows you perform an action on the selected batch of files). To mark a file, one can use the mf mapping, and to unmark everything, mF. I was playing around with this newly learned feature one day, and moved on since then.

A couple of months later, I turned on my printer for the first time in a while. It apparently had some things in its job queue to print. It printed out 12 pages of seemingly random files and directory listings that I used in the past months. In hindsight, 12 pages is not that much, but at the time (about two years ago), it felt like it kept going and going. This was before I knew of the existance of the cancel button it had (new technology, right?). I must've accidentally pressed the mp mapping a couple of times.

This commit patches the default Netrw mapping. Reading the Netrw documentation in the present day with Vim 9.1, I cannot find the mp mapping documented anywhere anymore. Maybe many others have run into this problem, too, which my silly self secretly hopes.