Re: iab +

Hi,

Paul wrote:
> I am trying to set an iab with two characters after <leader>, for example:
>
> iab <leader>lp blah blah blah
>
> However, this results in E474: Invalid argument. It works with just one character after the <leader>:
>
> iab <leader>l blah blah blah
>
> To use <leader>lp, I have to use imap instead of iab:
>
> imap <leader>lp blah blah blah
>
> Is this something I am doing incorrectly, or an undocumented (I didn't find mention of it) 'feature' of iab?

see ":help abbreviations". As your <leader> is probably not a keyword
character, your abbreviation is of type end-id, thus it can only have
exactly one trailing keyword charcter.

Regards,
Jürgen

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