Simple Vim snippet for markdown files

In markdown, fenced code blocks are handy because they allow you to explicitly define the language to be used to highlight your code.

The only problem is that it’s a bit painful to enter the triple backquotes (```) with a non US keyboard.

To make it easier to write markdown documents, I use the following config in my ~/.vimrc:

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.md iabbrev ''' ```

That way every time I type triple quotes (''') followed by a new line or a space it’s replaced by the triple backquotes.

The only quirk here is that now it’s necessary to separate with a space the triple quotes from the language alias.

So I usually write code blocks this way:

``` sh
echo "Hi"
```

Instead of:

```sh
echo "Hi"
```