Abbreviations beginning with non-keyword character

Kahn jonas | 2 Aug 2007 00:23

Re: Abbreviations beginning with non-keyword character

Abbreviations may begin with a non-id character, but there are more constraints: [...]

That I knew. I wondered if I could have something like \al as an abbreviation

What you can do is map the \ key to start a function which would get keyboard
input, process it, and finally return a string to be inserted into the buffer.
The partial sequence would probably not appear in the file window though. It
might be possible (I'm not sure, I haven't pushed the idea to its end) to have
it appear at the bottom, on the command/status line. I think Dr.Chip is more
expert than I am about "crazy" mappings.

Thank you. I'll try to write a function that does the work. Maybe with python, I can even manage to see it on the screen. I'll let poeple know if I can get a solution (probably an unreadable hack)...

Jonas

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