Re: Abbreviations using special chars

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <vim@benizi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Nathan Neff wrote:
>
>> I've tried this:
>>
>> iabbrev <s #+begin_src groovy
>>
>> in my .vimrc, but it doesn't work, it gives "Invalid argument" when I
>> start vim.
>>
>> But, when I enter
>>
>> :iabbrev <s #+begin_src groovy
>>
>> on the command line, the abbreviation works.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Check for non-breaking spaces.  I can get the "Invalid argument" error with
> the following line:
>
> iabbrev <s #+begin_src groovy
>       │  │           └─ regular space:       < > 32, Hex 20, Octal 040
>       │  └───────────── non-breaking space:  < > 160, Hex 00a0, Octal 240
>       └──────────────── regular space
>
> You can enter a nbsp by typing, in insert mode:
> <C-v> <x> <a> <0>
> (ctrl-v, x, a, zero)

I've checked for non breaking spaces, and couldn't find any.

Interestingly, if I use:

iabbrev <lt>s whatever

it works.

If I use

iabbrev <lt>sg whatever

then it fails with "Invalid argument". It looks like vim trips up if
the abbreviation is > 2 chars if I'm using the <lt>

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