Question

Just found about the autocomplete feature in Sublime Text 2.

Example auto complete file:

{
        "scope": "text.html - source - meta.tag, punctuation.definition.tag.begin",

        "completions":
        [
                { "trigger": "a", "contents": "<a href=\"$1\">$0</a>" },
                { "trigger": "abbr", "contents": "<abbr>$0</abbr>" },
                { "trigger": "acronym", "contents": "<acronym>$0</acronym>" }
        ]
}

I tried to search for a similar thing for Vim, but haven’t been able to find anything.

Does anything like this exist for Vim? Preferably if it uses simple to generate format, like JSON, YAML, etc.

Answer 1

I think you are looking for SnipMate, a good tutorial from Jeffrey Way: Vim Essential Plugin: SnipMate

Other plugins that can do something like you want: SparkUp or Zen Coding.vim