Question

I’m trying to create a shortcut to an existing command in vim. Specifically, I’m setting up eclim, and would like to call the :LocateFile command using just :LF. I’ve defined it like so:

command LF LocateFile

This works fine with no arguments, but I get an “E488: Trailing characters” if I give it a filename argument:

:LF MyFile

I’m thinking I need to stick an nargs in there somewhere, but I can’t find any examples of how it should be used in this situation.

Answer 1

there is the cmdalias plugin – it should be able to achieve exactly the thing you’re looking for – here i copied from vim-wiki

function! InitPlugins()
  call CmdAlias('LF', 'LocateFile')
  au! InitPlugins VimEnter
endfunction

aug InitPlugins
  au!
  au VimEnter * :call InitPlugins()
aug END