One abbreviation for various commands with different prefix?

Question

To take a short cut in writing markdown files I need an abbreviation which can combine these abbreviations,

autocmd FileType * iabbrev pythoncode ```python```<left><left><left><cr>jjO<C-R>=Eatchar('\s')<cr>    
autocmd FileType * iabbrev vimcode ```vim```<left><left><left><cr>jjO<C-R>=Eatchar('\s')<cr>    
autocmd FileType * iabbrev bashcode ```bash```<left><left><left><cr>jjO<C-R>=Eatchar('\s')<cr>

into one,

autocmd FileType * iabbrev [aLanguage]code ```[aLanguage]```<left><left><left><cr>jjO<C-R>=Eatchar('\s')<cr>

I don't know how to start with. In the input the "code" can be put ahead, resulting in the command being code[aLanguage], if it is more eligible.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 12 '17 at 07:51

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You could use a loop and exec:

for l in ["python", "vim", "bash"]
    exec 'autocmd FileType * iabbrev' l."code ```" l."```<left><left><left><cr>jjO<C-R>=Eatchar('\s')<cr>"
endfor

edited Mar 12 '17 at 07:51

Lerner Zhang

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answered Mar 12 '17 at 06:43

muru

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Oh, great. It's also scalable. – Lerner Zhang Mar 12 '17 at 07:39
@Lerner you could use a single abbreviation that uses the filetype. You can get it as a variable: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14717933/2072269 – muru Mar 12 '17 at 07:40

One abbreviation for various commands with different prefix?

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