Re: Abbreviations and key mappings

On Sep 11, 1:16 am, Spiros Bousbouras <spi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> :iabbrev CUC <NL>cucumber
> :inoremap <C-y> CUC<space>
>
> But when I press Ctrl-y I get 'CUC ' i.e. the CUC does not get
> expanded. I tried
>
> :inoremap <C-y> CUC<Esc>
>
> and
>
> :inoremap <C-y> CUC<C-]>
>
> but no dice.

:inoremap explicitly says to Vim, "don't expand any additional
mappings or abbreviations when executing this mapping". In other
words, you use the "noremap" commands to ensure you get built-in
functionality in the right-hand-side of your mapping.

But, you don't want built-in functionality, you want your
abbreviation.

Does using just :imap instead of :inoremap fix things? This seems to
work as expected for me:

:iabbrev CUC cucumber
:imap <C-y> CUC<Esc>

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