Practical Vim, 2nd Edition

Tip 117

Autocomplete Sequences of Words

When we use autocomplete to expand a word, Vim remembers the context from which that word was taken. If we invoke autocomplete a second time, Vim will insert the word that followed the original completion. We can repeat this again and again to fill in entire sequences of words. This can often produce results faster than using copy and paste to duplicate phrases.

Suppose that we’re working on this document:

auto_complete/help-refs.xml

Here's the "hyperlink" for the Vim tutor:
<vimref href="http://vimhelp.appspot.com/usr_01.txt.html#tutor">tutor</vimref>.

For more information on autocompletion see:
<vimr

The <vimref> tag is a custom element that I use throughout the XML manuscript for this book ...