Abolisher

Abolish is nice!

I started using it and added one Abolish after the other. After a while I ran :StartupTime and all of the sudden my results were much worse than before. Going through the results I figured it is my abolish.vim file.

After some testing I found out that :iabbrev is extremely fast. Even when creating many abbreviations it is way faster.

Creating many iabbrevs by hand sucks, so it was time to abolish vim-abolish.

Example

Requirements

Swift

Installation with vim-plug

Plug 'jandamm/vim-abolisher', { 'do': 'make build' }

Usage

Create a abolish file: filename.abolish
Add everything you want to abolish and save the file.

(Make sure the filetype is set: set ft=abolish)

This will create the file filename.vim. Make sure filename.vim is in your Vim runtime or sourced explicitly.

Example file

if exists('g:loaded_abolish_after')
  finish
endif
let g:loaded_abolish_after = 1

Abolish {despa,sepe}rat{e,es,ed,ing,ely,ion,ions,or} {despe,sepa}rat{}
iabbrev omw on my way

Try before converting?

Either clone or install this plugin with vim-plug. After running make build the executable abolisher is in bin. Now add bin to your path or replace abolisher below with the full path to the file.

One Abolish file

If you have one file where all your Abolish lives in, move it out of your vim runtime or change the extension to something else. Then run abolisher abolish.abolish > abolish.vim.

This will output every line in this file and every line starting with "Abolish" will be expanded to the corresponding iabbrev.

Having Abolish spread over your vim runtime

This isn't working very well as abolisher doesn't mutate the input file. So you would have both Abolish and iabbrev in your config.

If you want to test abolisher nonetheless you can provide it a list of files and it will output only abolished lines

abolisher . > abolish.vim

When you want to test your speed improvement you need to remove all "Abolish" lines:

sed -i 'bak' '/^Abolish/d' **/*.vim

Speed improvement

I tested mainly with tpopes own dotfiles.

On my machine sourcing this file took 31.3 milliseconds (average over 100 runs with StartupTime). The corresponding file created with abolisher took 1.5 milliseconds to load while still providing the same results. This is 20 times less.

I still use vim-abolish for its :S command and sometimes for :Abolish when I need it just in this file/session.

Where to go from here?

I may add a way to configure the implicit behaviour of including every line or just "^Abolish" lines

Differences/Bugs

abolisher does not accept spaces in the replace part. I don't have the need right now but maybe add it later
Create a bug if you spot a difference...