In vim, in my .vimrc, how can I redefine a command (i.e. :e) as something else?
I want to redefine :e * as :tabe *.
In vim, in my .vimrc, how can I redefine a command (i.e. :e) as
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In vim, in my .vimrc, how can I redefine a command (i.e. :e) as something else?
I want to redefine :e * as :tabe *.
I figured out a way to do it. See How to disable a built-in command in vim . From that, we can see that we can use cabbrev to change what a command does. For my needs,
cabbrev e tabeis perfect.But we can generalize this solution to make commands starting with lower case characters accessible to users for user-defined ones: use cabbrev to (re)define a built-in command as a user-defined one. As such, we are able to redefine built-in commands as well as user-defined ones.
Here’s an example, which is equivalent to my aforementioned solution to my problem:
That’s all.