Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Dominique! > > On So, 09 Jan 2011, Dominique Pellé wrote: > > > 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. > > I agree, searching would help. In your case, my plugin unicode.vim > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2822 could also help: > > > > > 2 examples: > > > > - I want to type the the angstrom symbol. I guess that the > > digraph contains the letter 'a'. Searching with /a narrows > > down the search. The digraph for the lowercase angstrom > > symbol is 'aa' so my partial guess was right. But I would > > not have guessed the full digraph. Finding it in the output > > of :digraph without being able to search was not simple. > > I ended up doing a :redir of :digraph to be able to... search. > > type a and press <C-X><C-G>. In the omni completion list select the > glyph. Alternatively, set > :let g:showDigraphCode=1 > and either enter the unicode codepoint or type the name and press > <C-X><C-U> > > In the preview window, you'll see the glyph and additionally the digraph > char, that can be used to enter that glyph if one exists. > > > > > - I want to type a Greek pi letter (3.14...). Same story: > > I guess that the digraph contains p and I search for /p. > > I end up finding it: p*. My partial guess was correct and > > helped. > > Again, p<C-X><C-G> would have shown you all digraphs, that can be > entered with p > > > Another use case is to search by copy/pasting the Unicode > > symbol from somewhere. If I search for angstrom on > > Wikipedia, I find its Unicode symbol. But of course > > I don't want to do that all the time to enter that symbol. > > If I can search for the Unicode symbol in the output > > of :digraph, I can then use the more convenient > > digraph aa next time I need to type the character. > > Use the unicode completion of the plugin, together with the codepoint or > the name.
Searching can be useful. Can someone make a patch to continue the table at ":help digraph-table" for characters beyond 0xff? -- Momento mori, ergo carpe diem /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- 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
