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Vim <strong>101</strong> Hacks<br />
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• Now you can simply press the function key, which will undo your<br />
previous insert and use it as normal mode commands which in this<br />
case change the word john to Jason.<br />
To achieve this, you should add the following line to your .<strong>vim</strong>rc<br />
$ cat ~/.<strong>vim</strong>rc<br />
inoremap u@.<br />
Note: There is a . (dot) next to ‘@’ at the end of the above line<br />
Hack 37. Abbreviation and Unabbreviation<br />
In the following example, whenever you type US it will expand to “United<br />
States” when you’ve defined the following abbreviation.<br />
To abbreviate a word temporarily, execute the abbr command in command<br />
mode as shown below.<br />
:abbr US United States<br />
To abbreviate a word permanently, you can place it in the .<strong>vim</strong>rc as shown<br />
above.<br />
To remove an abbreviation definition temporarily, execute the noabbr<br />
command in command mode.<br />
:noabbr US<br />
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