On 9 Nov 2008, at 11:54, mb wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> On Nov 9, 10:29 am, Andrew Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> PS - I've searched the help for how to type combining characters and
>> couldn't find a hint. I was trying to type your name properly, and  
>> was
>> reduced to yanking it from the start of the mail :(
>
> What you are looking for is maybe digraphs. In insert mode
> <C-k>o: gives me an ö. :digraphs shows the combinations.
>
That sounds like it... Grüß Gott! And it works.

One of the things I find difficulty with in searching the Vim
documentation is the many different ways the feature that you're looking
for may be indexed under. I was searching for 'composing' wihcih led me
onto 'combining'. There may have been a reference to 'digraphs' there...
no there aren't, at least not directly in the part of mbyte.txt that you
jump to with ':he composing'. I assume from the context that the term
'composing' is mainly for use in oriental/pictographic type languages
(although, thinking about it, it'd probably be useful in implementing
languages like arabic, where the shape of a character is affected by
it's position...)

Thanks, Meikel

regards, Andy
-- 
Andrew Long
andrew dot long at mac dot com


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