vi '_' command
Srinivasan Sundararajan
srini at ut-sally.UUCP
Sun Mar 18 17:13:19 AEST 1984
:ab in vi
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You're right there - it is meant for abbreviations.
For instance :
( in command mode ), the command -
:ab xy xylophone
makes vi automatically expand -
xy (to) xylophone
as you are typing text. It's not necessary for the "ab"-ed form to be the first
few letters of the expanded form. Even this is okay -
:ab q xylophone
But as you type in the abbreviation, leave a blank after it so that vi will
know that it needs to expand. This makes it possible to type in a word like
quiet
without having it suddenly expanded to -
xylophoneuiet !!
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