On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Mark Sargent wrote:
Hi All,
I'm trying to get vi to display an ab like so(minus the \),
ab htm <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
\<html>
\<head>
\<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type">
\<title>NewUser</title>
\</head>
\<body>
\</body>
\</html>
[snip]
Mark,
Here's an alternate suggestion:
You may want to take a look at ":help template". It may be better to
have a file with the HTML header/skeleton elsewhere that you can read in
to your current buffer on demand. For example:
:read skeleton.htm
This way, you don't have to wrestle with :abbreviate - you can make
skeleton.htm as pretty as you wish (indents and all). Besides,
abbreviating "htm" may cause future problems everytime you do type "htm".
You could try a mapping instead:
nnoremap \htm :read skeleton.htm<CR>
With the mapping above, in Normal mode, type "\htm" and skeleton.htm
will be inserted into your text.
Hope this helps.
--
Gerald
