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Asked: 2026-05-13T06:09:06+00:00

I have an automatic replacement done by my vim setup, which systematically replaces all

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I have an automatic replacement done by my vim setup, which systematically replaces all occurences of “sql” in command line by “SQL”.

So when I type:
:e myfile.sql
it is translated in
:e myfile.SQL

and when I search
/sql
it is tranlasted in
/SQL

There’s probably some parameters in the .vimrc, or some file sourced by .vimrc that generates this behaviour (I do not have control of everything that the .vimrc does since there’s some amount of corporate .vimrc involved here), but I find myself unable to localize the part of setup that does this, or to desactivate it retroactively.

Can somebody who knows vim well help?
I have vim 7.1, running on Linux

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  1. Editorial Team

    Probably an abbreviation set as follows:

    abbrev sql SQL

    The Vim documentation tells you how to determine the last location where an abbreviation was defined:

    :abbreviate-verbose

    When ‘verbose’ is non-zero, listing an abbreviation will also display where it
    was last defined. Example: 

    :verbose abbreviate
!  teh       the
    Last set from /home/abcd/vim/abbr.vim

    So typing :verbose abbreviate should help you locate the SQL abbreviation.

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