On 30 Oct 2010, at 14:11, björn wrote:

> On 30 October 2010 12:23, Barrie Stott <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> This is becoming a saga. Here's the current problem.
>> 
>> I have available something called a Keyboard Viewer that can be shown or 
>> hidden. When I show it, I get a picture of my Apple Wireless Keyboard. The 
>> second row from the top, 4th key shows a 3. Touching the shift key changes 
>> this position on the Keyboard Viewer to £ and touching the Alt key changes 
>> it to #.
>> 
>> In a terminal, typing one of {3, <S-3>, <M-3>} gives the corresponding one 
>> of {3, £, #}. However, in MacVim, the last one is a superscript-3 (I don't 
>> know how to type it in my mailer). I want to be able to type printable 
>> characters in MacVim just as I do in a terminal, if necessary by creating 
>> some maps.
>> 
>> It is possible with :digraphs to find how to map from superscript-3 to #, 
>> etc. I've done it for a few characters but it's a long-winded affair. Is 
>> there a simpler way?
>> 
>> If there is no simpler way, does anyone know the name of the file that is 
>> used for :digraph. It would be much simpler to work with a printed version.
> 
> If you want to get the same keys as are shown in the keyboard viewer
> then you need to disable the 'macmeta' option.

Thanks for this but I'll pass! The number of characters available without 
macmeta is large, about 47x2 at a quick count, and I know no way of getting 
them other than using maps or :digraphs. However, macmeta is so useful and the 
number of characters I'm likely to use is small. I simply have a bigger job 
than I wanted but I'll get used to what I have to do.

Barrie.

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