vim: cannot remap star key

Question

When trying to fix the issue reported in this question I found that the real problem is that I cannot remap the star key * using a Windows PC and Vim 7.4 with patches 1-274: if I start vim with vim -N -u NONE and run the command :noremap * :echo "star"<CR> and press *, vim tries to perform a search instead of echoing "star". Running :verbose map * however correctly returns :echo "star"<CR>.

Can someone reproduce this behavior? Is there a workaround? I also reported this to the vim dev group.

Answer 1

Mapping <kMultiply> instead of * solved the problem. Really strange since I do not use the keypad multiply key.