SOLVED On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> wrote: > On Tue, January 15, 2013 12:06, stosss wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> >> wrote: >>> On Tue, January 15, 2013 02:24, stosss wrote: >>>> I just started creating :iabbrev for all sorts of simple things. They >>>> all work just fine when Vim starts but they all break when .vimrc is >>>> sourced. >>>> >>>> I don't understand. >>> >>> Please be more specific. How do you start Vim, such that no >>> .vimrc is sourced? What makes you think, that after sourcing your >>> .vimrc it breaks your abbreviations? Do you get an error message >>> and if so which one? Where do you create your iabbrev without >>> the .vimrc? What does your .vimrc look like? Is there a simple way to >>> reproduce your issue? >>> >>> Those are just the couple of questions I can think of. >>> >> >> Starting gvim from shell or from GUI icon the :iabbrev commands work >> :source $MYVIMRC they stop working. >> >> Starting vim from the shell they don't work period not even new ones >> typed at the command line. >> >> These are simple ones like this >> :iabbrev od do >> :iabbrev adn and > > Do you have somehow 'paste' set? Again, please answer all questions > given above (e.g. show your $MYVIMRC). >
Thanks Christian, set paste was the problem. When I saw your question I looked up :help paste and there was the answer. set paste disables a lot of things. I removed set paste from .vimrc so maybe some other things that I just avoided will work properly now. -- 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
