Thanks to all, the abbreviation method seems to work now. I had used
'abbreviate' in my _vimrc file and it wasn't working. I changed it to
'ab' and it works fine. I'm not sure if I read the message wrong or if
both should work.
Anyway thanks again for all the help.
On 11/2/06, Yegappan
I'm new to Vim. One of the things that is helping me learn it is using
it for my main text editor every day (I'm not a programmer by trade
although I do a little for fun). So I am using it for writing emails,
letters, blog posts, etc. more than for coding per se.
Anyway, one thing I'd like to be
Anyway, one thing I'd like to be able to do is insert some
boilerplate text into a document - something like a standard
signature. Is there some way I can preload a buffer with this
text when I run Vim? Can this be done in the rc file? I'm sure
there is a way (with Vim there always seems to be)
On 11/2/06, Bill McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu 2-Nov-06 4:11pm -0600, Richard Querin wrote:
The abbreviation method seems the simplest for me at the
moment, but I can't seem to figure out how to make a
multiline abbreviation in my .vimrc file. I've tried using
CR characters in
