On Sep 11, 8:42 am, ZyX <zyx....@gmail.com> wrote: > Reply to message "Abbreviations and key mappings", > sent 10:16:13 11 September 2011, Sunday > by Spiros Bousbouras: > > > :iabbrev CUC <NL>cucumber > > :inoremap <C-y> CUC<space> > > > But when I press Ctrl-y I get 'CUC ' i.e. the CUC does not get > > expanded. I tried > > > :inoremap <C-y> CUC<Esc> > > > and > > > :inoremap <C-y> CUC<C-]> > > > but no dice. Then I tried > > Why can't you directly use > inoremap <C-y> <Nl>cucumber<Esc> > instead?
I presented a simplified version of what I want. I actually have several abbreviations and I want <C-y> to work with all of them. For example :iabbrev CUC <NL>cucumber :iabbrev TOM <NL>tomato CUC<C-y> where '<C-y>' means pressing Ctrl-y , must insert a newline and then 'cucumber'. TOM<C-y> must insert a newline and then 'tomato'. And so forth for all the other abbreviations. So my best effort so far is :inoremap <C-y> <ESC>B"gd$a<C-r>=substitute(maparg(@g , "i" , 1) , '<' . 'NL>' , "\n" , "")<CR> It is possible that my abbreviations will contain other special characters beside <NL> so I'd rather not have to substitute for each case. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php