From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 11 06:01:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872BE106566B for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 06:01:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D188FC13 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 06:01:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E4871E805BA; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:01:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:01:10 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20101211060107.GA13746@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Subject: vi/vim questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 06:01:12 -0000 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