CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Sagar Jain
Sagar Jain

Reputation: 7941

Auto generate c code in gVim

In a *.c file in gVim, when I type for( I want Vim to generate rest of the basic for loop structure as below.

for(;;)
{
}

I have achieved this with the help of the following abbreviation in _vimrc.

ab for( for(;;)<CR>{<CR>}

But, I want this abbreviation to be active only in a c file.

Is there a condition I can use in _vimrc so that the abbreviation is disabled in all the files but in *.c file?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 118

Answers (2)

tonio
tonio

Reputation: 10541

One good way to achieve this with vim is by the use of autocommand, for instance with:

autocmd FileType c      abb <buffer> for( for(;;)<CR>{<CR>}

autocommand is really powerful, and the documentation is quite good. In this example, be careful to use abb with the <buffer> parameter, since you want this abbreviation to be active only on the c source file buffer. See abbreviate-local documentation for example.

Upvotes: 1

Xavier T.
Xavier T.

Reputation: 42218

This feature is usually called "snippets".

It is supported by various Vim plugins like SirVer/ultisnips

Upvotes: 6

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