On Monday, January 21, 2013 3:56:48 AM UTC-6, Aaron Webster wrote:
> Hi all, I'm looking for a way to use regular expressions in abbreviations.
> For example,
>
> :iab \([0-9]\{-}\)nm \\SI{\1}{\\nano\\meter}
>
> would would expand every instance of, '50nm' to '\SI{50}{\nano\meter}'. Is
> this possible? It's been suggested to imap a regular function, but this is
> not so satisfying.
It *might* be possible to change the preceding text as you desire using an
<expr> based abbreviation on "nm". It would be easier with a mapping. What you
cannot do is specify abbreviations or mappings using regular expressions as you
are trying to do above.
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