Tip #267: selectively displaying abbreviations

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created:		June 27, 2002 6:42		complexity:		basic
author:		zzapper		as of Vim:		5.7

Hi Vimmers, abbreviations have always been one of the most useful parts of vi(m), trouble is when you've got too many you forgot what you called them. You can of course list the whole lot with :ab<cr> But did you know that you can type the first few letters of your abbreviations and get a list of just thos abs eg :ab php<cr> gives me all my php abs & :ab perl<cr> gives me all my perls also try control-D instrad of <cr> zzapper

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[email protected], June 28, 2002 4:45

Hi Just found out that it works for maps as well eg all my maps beginning with a comma :map , displays ,z :redir @*|sil exec 'g@<$input\|select\|textarea\|/\=form$\>@p '|redir END<CR> ,y "yyy@y<CR> ,x :%s#<script\_.*/script>#<script>^M</script>#g ,v :e $VIM/_vimrc ,s :source $VIM/_vimrc ,r :redir! > c:/aaa/xxx ,i :update<CR>: !start c:\progra~1\intern~1\iexplore.exe <cWORD><C R> ,f :update<CR>:silent !start c:\progra~1\intern~1\iexplore.exe fil e://%:p<CR> ,c c/["'<;)]<CR> v ,h "zda<h1><C-R>z</h1> <Esc>2F>

Anonymous, July 20, 2002 11:32

You can use Tab- and Ctrl-D-completion on the vim commandline for just about everything. Play around. Commands, filenames, maps, abbreviations, buffernames and whatnot. It's context sensitive, so it completes the right thing at the right place. Extraordinarily useful and an extreme speed boost. -- Regards, A.P.




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