Start abbreviations with ":"

nvim/init.vim

@@ -39,15 +39,16 @@ let g:rustfmt_autosave = 1
 
 " Markdown {{{
 augroup markdown
+	au FileType markdown setlocal iskeyword+=:	" this is kinda of a "hack" to make abbr accept ":" in them
 	" This is a long abbreviation, but:
 	" Most of it is simply text, with linebreaks (<CR>).
 	" There is one thing to take care, though: <CR> is NOT <C-R>.
 	" <C-R> will call the function (strftime), which will insert the current
 	" date.
-	au FileType markdown iab <silent> headr +++<CR>title = ""<CR>date = <C-R>=strftime('%Y-%m-%d')<CR><CR><CR>[taxonomies]<CR>tags = [""]<CR>+++
+	au FileType markdown iab <silent> :header +++<CR>title = ""<CR>date = <C-R>=strftime('%Y-%m-%d')<CR><CR><CR>[taxonomies]<CR>tags = [""]<CR>+++
 	" This abbreviation adds a modeline to set VIM to change the spell
 	" lang to portuguese.
-	au FileType markdown iab langpt <!--<CR>vim:spelllang=pt:<CR>-->
+	au FileType markdown iab :pt <!--<CR>vim:spelllang=pt:<CR>-->
 
 	au FileType markdown setlocal spell			" enable spell checking
 	au FileType markdown setlocal textwidth=79	" max line size