Re: How to get rounded bullet list character

Ben Fritz wrote:

> On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 9:04:14 PM UTC-6, Sam Burk wrote:
> > On Feb 18, Mac Martine wrote:
> > >If you scroll down slightly in to the image showing an example of Vim notes, it has the round bullet points in fro of the list items: https://github.com/xolox/vim-notes
> > >
> > >How do you create those?
> >
> > In the example you gave, it was written in Markdown. If you're using Markdown,
> > it can either be written with a "*" or a "-" character. You'll only see the
> > bullet after it's been rendered as HTML, though, as in on that Github page.
> >
> > If you want to type that literal character into a file in Vim, you could
> > define an abbreviation like the one below:
> >
> > iabbrev *** •
> >
> > Now every time you type three asterisks in insert mode, Vim will change it to
> > that bullet. You can change the asterisks to whatever you want.
>
> I'd prefer using a digraph:
>
> digraph li 8226 " Bullet
>
> Then type CTRL_K followed by "li" in insert mode to get the character.

Is this "li" some standard? I notice this entry is missing from the Vim
digraphs, perhaps that list needs to be updated.

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