Re: Encoding of double quotes by Vim (P.S.)

On 04/08/12 15:26, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 04/08/12 13:19, Eric Weir wrote:
>>
>> I write in Vim and when ready to format/publish dump documents in LyX
>> for formatting as LaTeX documents. When I do so, double quotes show up
>> in LyX with closing quotes at the beginning and end of the quote. When
>> dumped in a word processor, opening and closing quotes are identical as
>> well, but they are the vertical quotation marks, not the ones that curve
>> in and out that is standard in LyX. I'm guess the latter is what is
>> meant by "smart quotes."
>>
>> I'm wondering if it's possible to change the encoding of double quotes
>> in Vim so they don't get translated the way they do in LyX.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Eric Weir
>> Decatur, GA
>> eeweir@bellsouth.net <mailto:eeweir@bellsouth.net>
>
> Vim's double quotes are Latin1 0x22, Unicode U+0022 QUOTATION MARK;
> Unicode adds about them:
> * neutral (vertical), used as opening or closing quotation mark
> * preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are U+201C
> " and U+201D ".
>
> If LyX modifies your neutral (") quotation marks to make them closing
> ones (") that's a LyX problem, not a Vim problem.
>
> If you want to be able to type "pretty" quotation marks in Vim (as I
> just did here in my mailer), there are several possibilities:
> - find out if your keyboard has them (on mine, it's AltGr+v and AltGr+b)
> - use Ctrl-V u 201c and Ctrl-V u 201d (see :help i_CTRL-V_digit)

Oh, and I forgot: use Ctrl-K "6 and Ctrl-K "9 (see :help digraphs-use)

> - make up (or find) a keymap which has them, see
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_make_a_keymap
> - make Insert-mode mappings for them, for instance (with the ' and '
> single quotes for good measure):
>
> " double opening quote
> map! <F6> <Char-0x201C>
> " double closing quote
> map! <F7> <Char-0x201D>
> " single opening quote
> map! <S-F6> <Char-0x2018>
> " single closing quote
> map! <S-F7> <Char-0x2019>
>
> and put them in your vimrc (see :help <Char> about the values I used
> above in the {rhs} of the mappings). The above assumes that 'encoding'
> has been set to UTF-8 before you define those mappings, see
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
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