Bug 426084 - abbreviations in VIM
Summary: abbreviations in VIM
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vim
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-18 11:06 UTC by D Haley
Modified: 2008-06-24 14:32 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: vim-7.1.211
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-06-24 14:32:40 UTC
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Description D Haley 2007-12-18 11:06:54 UTC
Description of problem:
Vim is not supposed to have default abbreviations/autocorrects, but they are
present (and changing my c++ comments!).

Locale issue - Whilst editing a c++ source file in vim I noticed when I entered
the following

//Executes "set colour"

it was changed to

//Executes "set color"

Which is not quite right. Clearing the vim abbreviation list (:help abb) solves
the peoblem

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.at a shell type "vim file.cpp"
2.type "//colour"
3.observe
  
Actual results:
//color

Expected results:
//colour

Additional info:
Vim is not supposed to have default abbreviations. see :help abb "There are no
default abbrevations in vim"

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2008-02-25 16:39:31 UTC
please try again with vim-7.1.211 from FC7-updates. I think this was caused by a
comment plugin which has been enabled for some time until I removed it.

Comment 2 D Haley 2008-06-18 08:14:05 UTC
I have tested this in FC9, it is still there! However this problem is more major
in this case - Now it actually modifies your *source code* whilst you are
programming.


for example make a new .cpp file and save it.

then re-open it and type

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    const char *wtih = "weak tih";

    cout << wtih << endl;

}


then save. 

This will cause the code to change, where the wtih variable will be renamed to
with! If you are depending on external headers your code wont compile - or even
worse if there is a with and a wtih named variable, then the wrong one will be
referenced if you dont notice the as-you-type substitution.


Comment 3 Karsten Hopp 2008-06-24 14:32:40 UTC
I've checked the F-7 and F-9 sources and there's no abbreviation for p.e. colour.
The :ab command on a F-9 vim shows 'No abbreviation found'.

Please check your ~/.vimrc, ~/.vim/* and your /etc/vimrc for abbreviations. The
command ':verbose abbreviate' will tell you exactly in which file those
abbreviations have been set.


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