Re: Abbreviations, but only within a certain file type

[Ben Schmidt]

On 12/05/11 11:05 PM, Kevin Steinhardt wrote:

Forgive my ignorance once more, but is there a way to tell vim that
I'd only like it to expand an abbreviation keyword if the file type
is .htm, .html or .mkd?

:help :abbreviate-local

You can combine that with a filetype plugin, e.g. put

   iab <buffer> ''l &lsquo;
   iab <buffer> ''r &rsquo;

in ~/.vim/ftplugin/html.vim

or make them part of autocommands in your vimrc. I would use a function
if taking the latter approach, to avoid confusing escaping. E.g.:

function MyHTMLAbbrevs()
   iab <buffer> ''l &lsquo;
   iab <buffer> ''r &rsquo;
endfunction
augroup MyAbbrevs
   autocmd!
   autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.htm,*.html,*.mkd call MyHTMLAbbrevs()
augroup END

Ben.



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