Monday, April 26, 2010

Re: Vim accented characters in text based console

On Apr 11, 12:28 pm, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Of course, if you want to use an apostrophe followed by a vowel then,
> you will have to either switch the keymap temporarily off beforehand
> (see below), or else "break" the mapping, either by waiting for a
> timeout (by default one second, see :help 'timeoutlen', but 'timeout'
> [q.v.] must be on [not the default] for that) after the apostrophe, or
> by inserting some "do-nothing" key-sequence after the apostrophe, for
> instance <Left><Right>.


I found by accident that the simplest way to defeat the ' dead key is
just to hit it twice; that gives you the apostrophe. HItting the space
bar won't do it, unfortunately -- if it did, this would be very
comfortable for people used to the US-International keyboard layout.
But a double tap on the apostrophe works great.

I'm very grateful to learn about keymap=accents. It's much more
convenient than the Ctrl-K commands I was struggling with! Thanks.

- B

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