Tony, Sorry, I overlooked your esperanto_utf-8.vim.
But in fact I prefer input methods that have _postfixed_ accents. If I hand-write é, I write the 'e' first and the accent second, and it's most natural to me to type it that way as well. Typing the accent key first emulates the way that typewriter dead-keys used to work, but I can't remember the last time I used such a typewriter (1975? in Brazil?) or saw one used. I'm showing my age here... Digraphs slow me down--I prefer keymaps (input methods). And I'm a great fan of transliteration-based input methods (e.g. for Arabic, Cyrillic, Georgian) that can end up employing a lot of dead keys. Long live dead keys, as far as I'm concerned. I find such transliteration-based input methods much easier to remember (or relearn). I've never understood the prejudice against them, and the corresponding tendency to define input methods where each Unicode character must be input with one key event (a letter key, perhaps with one or more modifiers). I've written such transliteration-based input methods as Java Input Methods and OS X Input Methods, but the vim keymap format (like the Yudit formats) make it so much easier. In the end, tastes and habits differ, so I'm just glad that it's so easy for each user to define his or her own input methods in vim keymaps. Ken On 1/24/07, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kenneth Reid Beesley wrote: > Antono, > > I don't think that I sent you the attached keymaps for entering > Esperanto "accented" > chars in vim. > > esperanto-x_utf-8.vim > esp.vim (just includes esperanto-x_utf8.vim > but offers a simpler name) > > I'm sure you know all this, but for the rest... > > You can install the keymaps by copying the files to your > ~/.vim/keymaps/ directory. > You can select the keymap in Vim with > > :set keymap=esp > > Then, in insert mode, typing cx or c^ will cause a single Unicode > character, 0x0109, > the c with a circumflex accent on it, to be input to the buffer. And > similarly for all the > other exotic accented characters in Esperanto orthography. It's > called "esperanto-x" > because it implements the traditional postfix-x-convention for > Esperanto-orthography transliteration. > > You can, of course, modify the keymap trivially to reflect your own > input habits and > taste. > > Comments/corrections would be welcome. > > Ken Hi Ken, Did you look into $VIMRUNTIME/keymap ? It holds my "esperanto_utf-8.vim", which accepts prefixed ^ (except for u and U), grave accent (only for u and U) or postfixed x. The combinations ^c ^C ^g ^G ^h ^H ^j ^J ^s ^S ù Ù are as near as I could come to what is customarily produced when typing Esperanto on a French-language typewriter (which has ù and a dead key for ^ -- producing a prefixed ^ on some computer keyboards when not followed by a vowel -- but no breve). I guess the reason I didn't add the "Fundamentajn" ch Ch gh Gh hh Hh jh Jh sh Sh was the risk of collision with letter-groups found in many Latin-alphabet languages (at least in the case of ch Ch sh Sh gh and sometimes Gh). I notice, however, that when inputting Esperanto text to Vim I usually use digrams (Ctrl-K followed by one of c> C> g> G> h> H> j> J> s> S> u( U( ) rather than keymaps, so I suppose these "Esperanto keymaps" are a good exercise as an introduction to writing keymaps, but not very useful in practice. (I have written keymaps which I do use, "phonetic" ones for Russian and Arabic; but since they use a number of dead keys they are probably not the best for "public use".) Best regards, Tony.
