Henry Bley-Vroman

What's your use case?

What is the `....`, what is the expansion, and what are you doing with `my_var`? A full real example will help me in making a recommendation.

Ok cool some ideas… Doesn't look like you really need the `prof` abbreviation, at least not in this context. How about an abbreviation one order higher? ```shell % abbr -g...

I started conversation in the PR before seeing this ticket. Relocating conversation to here. > @olets wrote > Interesting. Before you sink too much time into it, can you explain...

> don't allow spaces in global abbreviations, and we always prefer a spaced abbreviation over a global one Perfect 👍 -- zsh associative array keys can have spaces as long...

I think immediately expand on `y l`. Otherwise the computation gets complex quick. Prefixed/scoped/multiword abbreviations are an advanced feature and I think it’s reasonable to ask users to work within...

@henrebotha I've pushed up a wip branch, [prefixes](https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr/tree/prefixes) ([diff](https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr/compare/prefixes)). The idea is to treat abbreviations and expansions the same — so where `abbr a=b` currently is saved as `abbr a="b"`...

@henrebotha 🎁 I've built this out If you're up for it I'd appreciate your trying it out! Branch is `multi-word-abbreviations`. (Back up your abbreviations just in case) For you original...

Great to hear, and encourages me to get it released. Amazing!! Let me think and get back to you with a couple groups to choose from.

Thanks for submitting the idea @thingsiplay! It makes sense. That's how zsh aliases work ```shell % alias hello="echo world" % echo hello; hello hello world ``` and how fish abbreviations...