Defining own command in command mode with :

Question

I want to define a command that is executed by :command<CR>.

I tried something like this:

cmap hello exec "normal aHello World"<Esc>

I have two problems with the result:

1. If I type slowly, then there sits :hello in the bottom line, and after pressing Return, I get

   Not an editor command: hello

2. If I type fast then :hello doesn’t sit there and it doesn't wait for me to hit the Return key – but at least it works.

Can somebody please points out to me how I have to define the hello command in a way that typing slowly will work?

Answer 1

The way I've always written colon-mode commands in vim is like this:

command! BASH !start bash

note the command must be in uppercase.

• ZyX: Only first letter must be uppercase.
• skeept: after defining command as in the answer you can use cmap to use lower case: cmap bash BASH<CR>