I understand that cabbrev is activated after I press a space bar, but how to avoid printing a space character to command line?
Many characters (I believe anything not in 'iskeyword') can be used to trigger the expansion of an abbreviation. However, if you want it to trigger without inserting the trigger character control+] should do what you want:
:help c_CTRL-] Same works in insert mode. :help i_CTRL-] -tim -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vim_use+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
