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.
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