It turns out I was *completely* wrong in my assumption about the cause of this error. Sorry. (Probably better error messages could be helpful here, like: stating *which* argument is invalid, *why* it is invalid, and *what* would be valid.) It is not the Unicode at all, I am very happy to say.
However, for some reason there are some abbreviation "names" that seem to be invalid. ".al" is one. ".wh" seems to be another. I find it impossible to see a pattern, I can appreviate to two or three characters, even four. It seems abbreviations starting with "." or "," can only be two characters total, except I can do this :iab ... ellipse and it works fine. So what can and can *not* be used for naming abbreviations, when, and *why not*? The problem also occurs with vim --clean. I am using Vim 8.2 on Devuan (that's what is in Devuan's repos.) torsdag den 20. juli 2023 kl. 08.44.07 UTC+2 skrev Christian Brabandt: > > On Mi, 19 Jul 2023, Lasse Hillerøe Petersen wrote: > > > I am trying to add am iabbrev ".h" for 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨. > > I type > > :iabbrev .h 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 > > (Yes, I have a Linux xkb layout so I can type this.) > > I get E474 Invalid argument. > > Other Unicode characters, like æøå or ¬ also don't seem to work. > > > > I have tried setting encoding to utf-8 > > :set enc=utf-8 > > :set tenc=utf-8 > > > > Searching for the error code came up with nothing useful. Where can I > find > > doc on what is actually *valid* arguments? > > Hm, that should work and certainly does here. Does it work when you use > vim --clean? > > What is your vim version please? > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > Christian > -- > Wie man sein Kind nicht nennen sollte: > Anna Kasse > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/0d41fec5-2a03-4d22-adb1-3c07f690a101n%40googlegroups.com.
