Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Re: Vimtutor translation

2013-10-22 12:14, Tony Mechelynck skrev:

> BTW, what I'm typing now is on the Belgian version of the AZERTY
> keyboard layout, similar but not identical to what they use in
> France. See
> http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/other/keybbe.htm for
> details, and for how I have access to an almost incredible wealth
> of characters thanks to the Shift and AltGr modifiers, used
> separately or together, and to the concept of "dead keys"
> (modifier prefixes pressed and released before using another key).

Have you considered replacing those duplicates with something
more useful? It's kind of easy:

<http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/Blog/custom-keyboard-in-linuxx11>

I've also gotten rid of some of the mathy characters which I
hardly ever use. In Vim I use keymaps of course!

>
> For the rare normal-mode commands which I don't find on my
> keyboard, or which are too awkward for frequent use, I use the
> :map command with F keys as the {lhs} (e.g. for the Ctrl-]
> constantly used when navigating the help, I have
> :map <F9> <C-]>
> in my vimrc; otherwise it would be Ctrl-AltGr-$ which I know about
> now, but it took me quite a long time to find that combination
> when I was learning to use Vim).
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.

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