Re: Switching between sets of keybindings in vim

> On 19:28:24 May 09, Arun Tejasvi Chaganty wrote:
>> There are times where I want to switch between an entire set of
>> keybindings/commands depending on the type of file I'm editing. For
>> example, if I'm using C/C++, I'd like to (hypothetically) have a
>> shortkey <C-f> to create an for loop block as such:
>> for (i=0;i<b;i++) {
>> ???<TAB>
>> }
>>
>> But in python, I'd like it to do;
>> for i in range (b):
>> <TAB>
>>
>> or it's equivalently for bash or any other language.

You can do this with filetype plugins. These are plugins that are
loaded only when a particular filetype is being edited.

Basically, you put whatever filetype specific commands you want in the
file ~/.vim/ftplugin/≤filetype>.vim

where <filetype> is the filetype, eg c.vim for c files, python.vim for python.

See :help filetype and :help filetype-plugins

>> Another thing I'd like to do is create a generic function to insert
>> snippets like <C-I>f would insert a for loop, <C-I>i a if block, etc. My
>> doubt is how to send the 'f', 'i' as arguments to a vim function, and in
>> the function how to access the filetype, etc.

Check out the vim scripts page on www.vim.org. A _lot_ of scripts
already exist which do exactly what you're asking.

HTH
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