First, thanks for your guys. I didn't think I whould receive response so
quick.
As Yakov suggested, before I execute the abbreviation, I add '<' to
'iskeyword' option:
:setlocal iskeyword+=<
Then the command to define the abbreviation works:
:iabbr <buffer> <method> <method name=""> </method>
BTW, I met this problem when I setup snippetEmu.vim plugin, hope it will
be helpful for you,too.
Thanks again.
BR
Vincent
Yakov Lerner wrote:
On 7/4/06, Peter Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Vincent,
An abbreviation cannot begin with a non-keyword character and end in
more than
one keyword character, thus <method is illegal, as is !method or
%method, etc.
This is true, but OTOH, one can include '<' character into 'isk' option
which then makes ':iabbrev <xyz...' legal.
For example, vimhelp buffers has isk defines such that
it includes < character. This explains why ':iabbrev <method ...'
worked for me; I tried it in the vimhelp buffer windows.
Maybe try ':iabbrev <method> ...' instead.
Do you mean ':imap' here ? Indeed, :imap is worthwile
substitute for :iabbr when :iabbr can't be used.
Yakov
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