Oh, and shame on me for using the .h example instead of copying one I actually had tried verbatim. ".h" works fine. Add an "e" :iab he hello - and it gives E474.
torsdag den 20. juli 2023 kl. 09.20.59 UTC+2 skrev Lasse Hillerøe Petersen: > It turns out I was *completely* wrong in my assumption about the cause of > this error. Sorry. > (Probably better error messages could be helpful here, like: stating > *which* argument is invalid, *why* it is invalid, and *what* would be > valid.) > It is not the Unicode at all, I am very happy to say. > > However, for some reason there are some abbreviation "names" that seem to > be invalid. ".al" is one. ".wh" seems to be another. I find it impossible > to see a pattern, I can appreviate to two or three characters, even four. > It seems abbreviations starting with "." or "," can only be two characters > total, except I can do this > :iab ... ellipse > and it works fine. > So what can and can *not* be used for naming abbreviations, when, and *why > not*? > > The problem also occurs with vim --clean. > > I am using Vim 8.2 on Devuan (that's what is in Devuan's repos.) > torsdag den 20. juli 2023 kl. 08.44.07 UTC+2 skrev Christian Brabandt: > >> >> On Mi, 19 Jul 2023, Lasse Hillerøe Petersen wrote: >> >> > I am trying to add am iabbrev ".h" for 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨. >> > I type >> > :iabbrev .h 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 >> > (Yes, I have a Linux xkb layout so I can type this.) >> > I get E474 Invalid argument. >> > Other Unicode characters, like æøå or ¬ also don't seem to work. >> > >> > I have tried setting encoding to utf-8 >> > :set enc=utf-8 >> > :set tenc=utf-8 >> > >> > Searching for the error code came up with nothing useful. Where can I >> find >> > doc on what is actually *valid* arguments? >> >> Hm, that should work and certainly does here. Does it work when you use >> vim --clean? >> >> What is your vim version please? >> >> >> Mit freundlichen Grüßen >> Christian >> -- >> Wie man sein Kind nicht nennen sollte: >> Anna Kasse >> > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/e647ddaa-67ef-48f6-ac05-e45369676c5bn%40googlegroups.com.
