Re: How to get rounded bullet list character

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.

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