Abbreviations in Vim

There are a few bits of text that are common to almost every file I edit with Vim. One of them is, of course, my name. The others are my e-mail address, and the date.

Vim allows you to define simple text abbreviations to make entering such strings super-easy. Here's a snip of my .vimrc.

" Some handy abbreviations.  
"  
" Insert date.  
iab xdate =strftime("%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")  

" What's my name?  
iab xname Mohit Muthanna Cheppudira  

" My personal sig.  
iab xsigp Mohit Muthanna Cheppudira   

" My work sig.  
iab xsigw Mohit Muthanna Cheppudira

With the above in my Vim configuration, the text xdate gets auto-replaced to today's date.

Slick.