Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:01:10 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: vi/vim questions Message-ID: <20101211060107.GA13746@thought.org>
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This may apply to other systems that can use a vi clone, not just the BSD's. I am looking for an easy way of turning on/off my list of homonyms that I am trying to set up for my ":abbreviation" list. So, is there a failsafe way of (1) including my ~150 :ab list in vim and turning it on and then (2) turning the vim list off so that, What I-Type-Is-what-I-See [?] In other words, dis-including my list of abbrevs. I tried this with ten or fifteen words last summer in nvi, and it worked very well with my ktts/festival suite. I was able, using my Thinkpad as a testbed, have the computer talk clearly for me. A day or two later I went into C mode for a day or three. After a few hours of enjoying my hacking, I had to stop, remove the :ab words from my ~/.nexrc and continue. For anyone who hasn't read my ideas about this, I am attempting to collect the 130+ most commonly used words and create "natural" or "common sense" abbreviations for each word. Obv'ly, this would be unnecessary for people who have no trouble typing accurately and rapidly. I have decided to use vim because is it widely used as the next step in a text editor based on vi, and because it may allow me to simply include a file in ~/vimrc; I'm not sure how far the improvements go. thanks, everybody, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
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