VIM question

[Joel Hammer]

Dud....
Dumb mistakes.
First, the command should have been:
:iabb SF  font(Times-Roman8}
This still gives the error I mentioned below. I guess the reason is that
these abbreviations are just straight key strokes. Thus,   is the esc
key and this knocks the editor out of the insert mode. Dud...
So, using 2 instead of 0 (type crtl-V 2) as the esc key here seems to work.

This seems to be a solution:
:iabb SF font(Times-Roman8}
and then run enscript with:
enscript -e2 -ojunk.ps input.txt
I suppose this will cause some complications down the road.
Joel



On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:46:22PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Being offline has its benefits. I finally learned how to navigate the
> help pages of vim and have learned a lot.
> 
> Once having learned vim, I'll never go back, but....
> 
> I'd like to get an abbreviation to change fonts easily.  However,
> the command:
>      :iabb SF 
> fails with this error:
>      {font Times-Roman8} not an editor command.
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Joel
> 
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