Re: Wanted: smart selective abbreviation loading

On Sat, June 19, 2010 5:47 pm, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> The following may be totally daft, something others
> might find useful, or even already existing. Whichever
> it may be I'd appreciate info on where to find it, how to
> implement it, or reasons not to implement it.
>
> TIA,
>
> /BP
>
> Since I write files in many different languages, both
> in the computer language and natural language sense,
> and on different more or less unrelated subjects I
> often want to use different sets of abbreviations, so I
> would like to have a plugin defining a command
>
> :Labbr string [string]...
>
> (where strings may contain wildcards) which causes vim
> to do the following:
>
> a. For each string look for files with names matching
>
> string.abbr
>
> in the following places, in order:
>
> 1) the directory of the current file if the buffer
> has been saved.
> 2) ~/.abbr if it exists.
> 3) Subdirectories of (2).
>
> b. Scan found files for lines matching
>
> /^\s*\(\w\+\):\s\+\([^#]\+\)/
>
> c. For each found line do (what I mean by)
>
> :abb <buffer> \1 \2
>
> (I don't know if you can use \1 and \2 like that but
> you know what I mean! :-)
>
> The idea is that I may have files like
>
> current_file_dir/sv.abbr
>
> ~/.abbr/subject_sv.abbr
>
> ~/.abbr/sv.abbr
>
> ~/.abbr/**/subject_sv.abbr
>
> which will be processed as per above if i say
>
> :Labbr subject_sv sv
>
> The point of not just sourcing *.vim files with :abb
> commands is of course that the same files may be used
> for similar purposes by other programs. I typically
> write text in the notes thingy on my smartphone, email
> the text to myself (over the wlan when I get home ;-),
> then use a Perl script which works essentially like the
> vim plugin I crave -- and so obvious from the spec that
> I'll not waste bandwidth by including it -- to expand
> any abbreviations in the text written on the phone, and
> I want to be able to use the the same abbreviations and
> the same abbreviation definition files (which actually
> are YAML mapping fragments, btw! :-) when typing in
> vim.

Try the attached script. It is only very basically tested.

regards,
Christian

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