I am sure this is not beyond emacs. There are so many things for emacs already, you may find something which already does what you need and just needs a dictionary of what you wish it to use if they aren't already in it. I don't know about vim, but I don't get on with that so well. From Michael Whapples On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 23:46 +0000, Georgina Joyce wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'd like to use an auto complete type facility within emacs or Vim and wondered if experienced users could offer any pointers? > > For example I'd like the following expansions: > > Uniclan expanded to; University of Central Lancashire > Co2402 expanded to; co2402 Advanced Programming with C++ > > And so on. I hope you get the idea. > > Would this be a macro of some kind? > > Thanks > > Gena > > Amateur Call: M 0 E B P > > VOIP / IM: gena1959uk > > > > > >