Re: why "imap ;áo ção" doesn't work? # i.e., imap ;<255>o <231><277>o

Hello guys

The purpose of "#" notation was to comment the email, not the .vimrc :)

Thanks a lot. The <char> thing worked! The others didn't.

Leo

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Tony Mechelynck
<antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/08/11 21:04, Leonardo Barbosa wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to abbreviate or imap latin caracteres. At first, i tried that:
>> imap ;áo ção      # imap ;<255>o <231><277>o
>> I didn't work.
>>
>> After doing some searching, I in vain did that
>> imap ;áo <C-v>231<C-v>227o # imap ;<255>o <231><277>o
>>
>> This does not solve too.
>> imap ;<C-v>255o <C-v>231<C-v>227o # imap ;<255>o <231><277>o
>>
>> Does anyone know that I am doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Leo
>
> In Latin1, a-acute is 225, not 255; a-tilde is 227, not 277; other than
> that:
>
> - as Ben said, Vim comments start with a double-quote, not a # mark, and
> shouldn't be put after a mapping with whitespace betwwen
> - again as Ben said, if the 'fileencoding' of your vimrc is different from
> the 'encoding' used by Vim, it should have a :scriptencoding statement near
> the top, see :help :scriptencoding
> - to represent characters in a mapping by their decimal value, use
> <Char-nnn> notation, see :help <Char>
>
> So either of the following ought to work, assuming that (if needed) the
> appropriate :scriptencoding statement is present earlier (maybe much
> earlier):
>
>        " ;áo to ção
>        imap ;<Char-225>o <Char-231><Char-227>o
>
> or even just
>        imap ;áo ção
>
> but if you absolutely want the comment on the same line you should use the
> following trick, see :help :exe-comment
>
>        exe "imap ;áo ção" |" á=225 ã=227 ç=231
>
> If you have a Portuguese keyboard you might be able to type it all at the
> keyboard. Otherwise you can use |digraphs| or the |i_CTRL-V_digit| method:
>
>        To get  type    or
>        á       ^Ka'    ^V225
>        ç       ^Kc,    ^V231
>        ã       ^Ka?    ^V227
>
> where ^K and ^V mean "hit Ctrl-K" and "hit Ctrl-V" respectively (and if your
> Ctrl-V has been remapped to the paste operation, you should use Ctrl-Q
> instead).
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
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