Re: Encoding of double quotes by Vim

On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the information on what Vim does, Tony. As my response to Alick indicates, the LyX folks are aware of the problem and that it is their's.

> 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)

Actually, my preference would be to have LyX use the character Vim uses, the way the word processors I've checked out on this do when I dump a Vim-composed document into them.

I'll stay open to the option of setting up a mapping.

I don't understand 'AltGr+v'. Specifically, the 'Gr' part.

Thanks again,
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