[neomutt-users] automatically insert text in messages
Sam Kuper
sampablokuper at posteo.net
Tue Feb 16 18:39:44 CET 2021
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 09:06:34AM -0800, Kian Kasad wrote:
> You'd have to enter insert mode first, since this is an 'nmap', not
> 'imap':
>
> :nnoremap <Leader>aa aThank you for using Acme Corp!<esc>
Well caught. I was typing in haste and missed the `a` (or `i` or `o` or
whatever, depending on where you want the snippet to be inserted).
> I'd actually recommend using vim's built-in abbreviation functionality
> for this, as it's designed for doing exactly this.
Good call! An oversight on my part to have forgotten abbrev.
(In my defence: I mostly hang out in normal mode, and usually want my
macros to do more than just expand text.)
Thanks!
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