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created 2002 · complexity intermediate · author Kartik Agaram · version 6.0


Have you ever been annoyed by an over-zealous cabbrev? A simple way to temporarily disable it is set invpaste. Very convenient in combination with the 'pastetoggle' key. Note however that 'pastetoggle' does not work if you are already in command-line mode, as documented in the help.

You can also simply press <C-V> before whatever character (usually <space>) that you type that will expand the abbreviation. This will insert the character literally without expanding the abbreviation.

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Does anybody have a better way to disable cabbrev's? The Vim docs (a little above help abbreviate-local) say pressing <C-v> twice somewhere within the abbrev avoids expanding it. Doesn't work for me, though. Pressing <C-v><Space> works in the ':' prompt, but not while searching - what if I don't want to include a space in the pattern?


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