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If you do a lot of repetitious typing, such as copyright statements, code comments, signatures, and so forth, and you would like some kind of auto-text feature, use Vim's appreviations feature.
Abbreviations are created in Normal mode:
:ab th This is an example of a Vim abbreviation.To use the abbreviation, switch to Insert mode and type th, followed by any whitespace above (space, tab, or carriage return).
To see all of your abbreviations, type:
:abTo remove an abbreviation, use:
:unabbreviate thTo delete all abbreviations, use:
:abclearLike everything else in Vim, abbreviations can be preserved
forever in ~/.vimrc.
You can use the abbreviation as an automatic spelling-fixer (like Recipe 6.6). Just define your common misspellings as abbrevations. This trick works best for typos (teh for the, for instance).
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