Re: Abbreviations using special chars

On Tue, July 12, 2011 5:38 pm, Nathan Neff wrote:
> Interestingly, if I use:
>
> iabbrev <lt>s whatever
>
> it works.

This means, when vim parses this iabbrev, it will replace the <lt>
by '<', so you trigger your abbreviation by typing <s (as you
probably already know, just want to point out the obvious).

> 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>

Again, when parsing this abbreviation, vim will replace the <lt>
by '<'. So you would need to enter <sg to trigger this abbreviation.

Now you need to know, that there are three types of abbreviations, as
detailed by :h abbreviations. You are abbreviation '<s' is of kind
end-id. But, the abbreviation <sg is of neither type, so it is invalid.

regards,
Christian

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