On 09-Jan-2011 Dominique Pellé <[email protected]> wrote: > Lech Lorens wrote: > > > On 08-Jan-2011 Dominique Pellé <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Adrien "Axioplase" Piérard wrote: > >> > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > I happen to use :digraphs quite a lot to insert mathematical symbols > >> > in documents. > >> > However, finding the characters and their input sequence is *very* > >> > straining for the eyes. > >> > > >> > I wonder whether each of the three columns output by :dig could be > >> > coloured to help reading? > >> > Also, it may help *a lot* too to colour blocks of consecutive related > >> > digraphs in similar colours, such as "all maths symbols", "all > >> > Japanese symbols", "all Greek letters" and so on. > >> > >> When looking at the output of :digraph, the "more prompt pager" > >> allows pressing keys to move up or down: > >> > >> -- More -- SPACE/d/j: screen/page/line down, b/u/k: up, q: quit > >> > >> How about being able to press / or ? to search forward or > >> backward in the output of :digraph? (or in the output of any > >> other command that uses the "more prompt pager"). > >> > >> -- Dominique > > > > The idea (performing a search) was discussed about 2 years ago (the > > following message started the thread: > > [email protected] ). > > Hi Lech > > I did not find the discussion from 2 years ago. > What's the date?
Feb 21, 2009. Have you tried the message ID on the Google groups? Seems to work fine for me. Anyway, here's the whole thread: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/b5c08b079e0c06e6/3a6c31d30413a1b6?q=#3a6c31d30413a1b6 > > In this specific case I don't believe such a solution would be very > > useful: you refer to the output of :dig to find out how to type > > a symbol. How can you search for a symbol if you don't know how to input > > it? > > Many digraphs are chosen in a logical way. Sometimes > it's enough to correctly guess what the digraph is, but not > always. When you can't completely guess, you can > sometimes make a correct partial guess and being able > to search then helps. > > 2 examples: Agreed! -- Cheers, Lech -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
