Re: Is it possible to map dead keys (accents) in Normal mode?

On 28/12/13 14:22, Alexey wrote:
> On Saturday, December 28, 2013 3:05:29 PM UTC+4, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>> On 28/12/13 10:35, Alexey wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>>>
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>>> i am using a Canadian Qwerty keyboard layout with dead keys for entering "^" and "¨" accents. For example, typing what would be "[o" in US Qwerty produces "ô".
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Is it possible to map a dead key in Vim (in Normal mode for example)? I would like to remap the keyboard so that pressing the US Qwerty <[> key acts as "[" even in Canadian layout.
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Alexey.
>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> It is not possible to map only the dead key, because when you hit it the
>>
>> keyboard interface (part of your OS or of X11 or…) sends nothing to Vim,
>>
>> it waits until you hit the next key. You can map â ê î ô û ŷ or even, if
>
> Thanks, but i do not think that Vim does not receive anything when i press a dead key: when in Insert mode i press the dead <^>, it shows "^", which turns into "ô" when i press <o>.
>
> Alexey.
>
That might mean that the "dead key" feature isn't due to your keyboard
interface but to some keymap or mapping (or maybe some langmap, but
that's less likely): see (while editing the file in question)

:help 'keymap'
:verbose setl keymap?

:help 'langmap'
:verbose setl langmap?

:verbose map! <Char-0x5E>

In that case, change the keymap or mapping to remove the multikey {lhs}
starting with ^ (there should be more than one). On my system, the dead
keys happen ahead of Vim, and e.g. also when typing this email in
Mozilla SeaMonkey. See
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/other/keybbe.htm for details
of my keyboard layout.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT MODIFY-IN-PLACE A KEYMAP WHICH IS IN
$VIMRUNRIME/keymap/ because any upgrade could undo your changes.
Instead, copy it under another name in ~/.vim/keymap/ (on Unix) or
~/vimfiles/keymap/ (on Windows, but using Vim terminology) (while
creating any directories which don't exist yet), make the changes there,
then find where the keymap is invoked (e.g. with ":verbose setl keymap")
and invoke the new one.

See also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_make_a_keymap


Best regards,
Tony.
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