vim-auto-abbrev

Automate Abbreviates for you

Introduction

Abbreviations are a great vim feature to automatically fix common typos. However, it is very annoying to add them all one by one, and it cuts off the workflow in the middle every time you are adding a new abbreviate to the config.

This plugin is here to solve this problem. The plugin enables you to add abbreviate as you work, without starting to change the files and buffers you are in. This plugin have API that would let you add the abbreviations as you encounter them, without more work than the work that you would have invested just to fix typo in the word.

Usage

This plugin have some commands and mapping that can be used to use the features of the plugin.

Commands:

• AutoAbbrevAddCurrentWord - Add the word under the cursor as abbreviate lhs, ask the user to insert the rhs value of the abbreviate.
• AutoAbbrevAddCurrentLhsWord - Save the current word as lhs abbreviate value, to later on add the rhs value of it.
• AutoAbbrevAddCurrentRhsWord - Add the current word as rhs abbreviate value, adding it as the abbreviate of the last saved lhs value.
• AutoAbbrevAddAbbrev - Add a new abbreviate. It get both the lhs value and the rhs value of the abbreviate.
• AutoAbbrevReload - Reload the abbreviate file, in case it was modified from other vim instance.
• AutoAbbrevDelAbbrev - Delete an abbreviate from the abbreviate file.

Mappings:

• '<leader>aa' - call AutoAbbrevAddCurrentWord
• '<leader>al' - call AutoAbbrevAddCurrentLhsWord
• '<leader>ar' - call AutoAbbrevAddCurrentRhsWord
• '<leader>ae' - call AutoAbbrevReload

Installation

You can use your favorite plugin manager to install this plugin, as any other plugin.

Couple of examples:

Vundle

Add this line to one of the files loaded when opening vim:

Plugin 'omrisarig13/vim-auto-abbrev'

pathogen.vim

git clone https://github.com/omrisarig13/vim-auto-abbrev.git ~/.vim/bundle/vim-auto-abbrev

Than reload Vim and run :helptags ~/.vim/bundle/vim-auto-abbrev/doc/ in it.

Farther Reading

For father reading and explanation about all the plugin usage and possible configuration read the help of the plugin (install it and then run help auto-abbrev.txt

Contributing

If you want to contribute to the plugin, please do. I welcome new ideas and would love to add more features to this plugin.

If you have an idea but you don't know how to implement it, you are more than welcome to open in issue with it. If you have small feature that you want to implement, you are welcome to write it and open a pull request. If you want to add a major feature, it is recommended to open an issue first, to validate with me that this feature is indeed reasonable for this plugin.

If you are going to add code to this plugin, please read CONTRIBUTING.md first.