[Vimperator] abbreviation (patch) [+RFC: text substitution]

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:08:49PM +1100, Doug Kearns wrote:
> :echo "Vimperator version is: " . v:version

OK, good, works ;)

> In this example, at least, it's easy enough to do:
> 
> :abbr MS Martin Stubenshrott<S-Left><Left>

Right, never used <S-Left>, but ok.

> :iabbrev <expr> DATE "Today is: " . vimperator.system('date')

Hmm, also works, seems i just know too little about vim :)

<snip>

> :echo "#" works fine. There's no need to escape it, only a bare # is
> expanded.

Not totally right, only :echo expand("#") is expanded.

> > > <clink> could be the current 'link' like <cword>

sounds logical

> > Same problematic use of </> which will be input/output redirection.
> 
> I don't see a problem here at all - just an implementation detail at
> worst.

I you are going to implement that, have fun ;)

> > > > To grep the current textContent of the website:
> > > > :!grep foo #{text}
> > >
> > > :!grep foo <text>

Again you probably mean :!grep foo <<text>
But we could also use "modifiers", like %:t which results in a local filename
with just text contents, %:l as a tmp file which is a copy of the html
page, or % as the full http:// url.

> > < is bad, since we want to have input redirection at some time.
> 
> Again I don't see that as a problem but I'm not really convinced by
> <text> either.  I think it would be better implemented as filtering
> with !

Elaborate on that please.

You really gave good points for "your" or the "vim" way, i am not fully
persuaded yet, as it seems much more complex to implement, and time is
short you know, but we'll see, it's a future item anyway.
--
Martin