Max Dyckhoff wrote:
I haven't been following this thread in its entirety, but there are the "Windows Alt
Keycodes" that can solve your entry of the œ symbol, and many others. To enter œ
"all" you need to do is HOLD Alt, and then enter 0156 on the keypad, and then release Alt.
Hardly a stylish solution, but easier than copy/pasting from Vim, I'm sure.
Max
Except that I never remember those numbers.
-Vim is intuitive:
To enter œ in Vim, I hit ^Koe (where ^K is Ctrl-K). No weird numbers to
remember, just one ctrl-key for all digraphs. And is it possible even on
Windows to use codes above 255 (in this case, Alt-0339 I suppose)?
-Vim is customizable:
When I want to type Russian, I use gvim with my own
"russian-phonetic_utf-8.vim" keymap, where a maps to ah, b to beh, v to
veh, g to gheh, etc. No weird keystrokes to remember.
-Vim is cross-platform:
On this SuSE Linux system, Alt-keypad codes just don't work. Vim, OTOH,
works the same on both Windows and Linux.
Morality: Don't underrate Vim, especially not on its own mailing list. :-)
Best regards,
Tony.
