bug in vi with :ab

[Evelyn C. Leeper]

In article <5473 at super.upenn.edu> brant at linc.cis.upenn.edu (Brant Cheikes) writes:
> Problem: Abbreviations are expanded at all levels of vi.  This has been
> reproduced in both System V vi and BSD vi (SVR2 and 4.3BSD respectively).
> 
> Reproduce:  Run vi, and set an abbreviation, say :ab foo FooBaz.  Now insert
> some text, anytime you type "foo", it will be replaced by "FooBaz".  This is
> fine.  However, you can no longer ever search for the string "foo", nor edit a
> file called "foo"--in all cases, "foo" is expanded first to FooBaz.

> SO, is this a bug?  Is there some way to search for abbreviation strings?  If
> a bug, is there a fix?  It seems to me that abbreviations should ONLY be
> expanded while in input mode.

Whether or not it's a bug is a philsophical question.  How to search for the
string "foo" is with "/f.*oo".

					Evelyn C. Leeper
					201-957-2070
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