Re: replace represenation of certain characters with a string of characters?

On Tue, March 26, 2013 03:41, neolus wrote:
> I couldn't figure out a way to phrase my question but I'm not asking about
> replacing patterns or anything.
> I'd like to know if it's possible in vim to ( visually ) show any certain
> character as something else. e.g. while editing a text file any occurrence
> of the character '?' would just /look/ like '<>' but is still the
> character
> '?' and nothing is different except what you see. I'm asking because I
> figured this is impossible but maybe someone out there knows something I
> don't?
>

:h new-conceal

This however allows to visually display a portion of a text by a single
other char (not 2 as you asked about).

In your case, you can do:

syn match MyConcealedChar /?/ conceal cchar=Ąę
:set conceallevel=2 concealcursor=nv

See also
:h 'conceallevel'
:h 'concealcursor'

regards,
Christian

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