On 01/12/12 14:56, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
Hello,
Searching for a digraph usually is quite hard, since there are so many
of them, and the are aligned in columns where only one column is
important when one is looking for a particular glyph. It would be nice
if that column was highlighted - searching would be a lot easier.
Regards,
Marcin
In addition to all the answers you already got, all standard digraphs
are listed in the output of :digraphs in Unicode codepoint order. This
makes it easy to find a digraph when you know the Unicode codepoint,
except that the output of :dig gives the codepoint numbers in decimal
while the usual custom is to give them in hex. Happily, Vim can easily
convert hex to decimal: for instance, if you know that UPWARDS ARROW is
U+2191, type :echo 0x2191 and Vim will answer 8593. Searching the output
of :dig for 8593 tells you that -! is the digraph for an upwards arrow.
To find out the Unicode codepoint for the character you need, I recommend:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/ (by family of scripts or of symbols)
http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html (by name)
The latter indexes the names by all the important words in them, and
often according to several different alternate names for a single
codepoint. Both these pages contain links to glyph charts in PDF.
This, of course, is for when you need to use a given codepoint
repetitively. If you need it only once, see
:help i_CTRL-V_digit
about how to input the character (in Insert/Replace or Command-line
modes) by using the Unicode hex value directly.
Best regards,
Tony.
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