Remapping Econtroller in Rails.vim

Question

I started using Vim to do my editing in Ruby on Rails, so I installed the Rails.vim plugin. I really like this plugin, but I have a few issues with it:

1. I have to type :Econtroller Controller to edit a controller. The same for models (:Emodel Model), etc. If I had a controller named people, it would be much easier to type :ec People and press enter. This would save me 9 characters , not counting every time I have to hit the shift key to capitalize the E!
2. I don't feel that I should have to capitalize the class name when opening the file as described in bullet #1. For example, if I do want to edit the People controller, I have to press the shift key before I even start to type the name of the class. Then, I type fast enough that I regularly hold down shift too long and People becomes PEople , then Rails.vim RENAMES the file to PEople!

If you have any solutions or suggestions, please let me know. Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

You can use :cabbrev to make exactly the shortcut you're asking for:

:cabbrev ec Econtroller

This way, when typing ec<space> , this will expand to Econtroller<space> anywhere on the command line. See :help abbreviations for more details.

As for capitalization, I don't actually think you need to capitalize the controller. At least on my installation of rails.vim, :Econtroller users works just fine to get me to the UsersController . Maybe you should update your rails.vim plugin?