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 Tip #352: disabling cabbrev

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created:   October 24, 2002 21:55      complexity:   intermediate
author:   Kartik Agaram      as of Vim:   5.7

Have you ever been annoyed by an over-zealous cabbrev? A simple way to temporarily disable it is to set invpaste. Very convenient in combination with the pastetoggle key.

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Additional Notes

Kartik, October 24, 2002 22:11
Does anybody have a better way to disable cabbrev's? The vim docs (a little above help abbreviate-local) say pressing <C-v> twice somewhere within the abbrev avoids expanding it. Doesn't work for me, though. Pressing <C-v><Space> works in the ':' prompt, but not while searching - what if I don't want to include a space in the pattern?
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