Thank you very much, I'll look into these issues. Vim is definitely a world in its own!
Luis 2010/4/11 Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]>: > On 11/04/10 11:57, Luis P. Mendes wrote: >> >> Hi Tony, >> >> thank you very much for your help and time trying to help me. >> >> Here are the results I got from vim. >> >> In X, vim (not gvim which I don't use) returns: > > I thought you had used gvim before, with no error. > >> encoding=latin1 >> termencoding= >> >> lang: Current language: >> "LC_CTYPE=pt_PT; > > ------------^ > This one specifies (system-wise) what "national settings" to use for > character sets; IIUC when Vim sees this at startup it sets 'encoding' to > latin1. ('termencoding' empty means "use 'encoding'" and is the default.) > >> LC_NUMERIC=C; >> LC_TIME=pt_PT; >> LC_COLLATE=pt_PT; >> LC_MONETARY=pt_PT; >> LC_MESSAGES=pt_ >> PT;LC_PAPER=pt_PT; >> LC_NAME=pt_PT; >> LC_ADDRESS=pt_PT; >> LC_TELEPHONE=pt_PT; >> LC_MEASUREMENT=pt_PT; >> LC_IDENTIFICATION=pt_PT" >> >> keymap= >> iminsert=0 >> >> Ctrl-V followed by 233 é >> >> Ctrl-K then e then an apostrophe é >> and if I key: Ctrl-K then e then the accent mark followed by a space I >> get a é > > Hm. Normally the accent mark followed by e (without the Ctrl-K prefix) ought > to give é then. If it doesn't, there may be something misconfigured, either > in X (for Vim in xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal etc.) or in the kernel's > keymap setting (for the Linux console). I don't know Slackware (my Linux > system is openSUSE, which is loosely based on RedHat) so I wouldn't venture > to tell you where to look for that. > >> >> >> In text console the results are the same. >> >> Another information: >> I tried pico text editor in X, and am able to use accented characters. >> In text mode console, I can't. The symptoms are identical to vim's. >> To use accented characters, I just have to press the accent first (ex. >> ') and the base character I want accented (like e). >> >> So, I guess I have to check my Slackware system configuration instead of >> vim's. >> >> >> Luis > > Well, in the meantime you can use digraphs, see > :help digraph.txt > :help digraphs-default > > and in particular > Ctrl-K e apostrophe gives é (e-acute) > Ctrl-K a exclamation-mark gives à (a-grave) > Ctrl-K o question-mark gives õ (o-tilde) > Ctrl-K c comma gives ç (c-cedilla) > etc. Of course any precomposed character present on your keyboard should > normally also be usable (my Belgian keyboard has a lot of these, see > http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/other/keybbe.htm ) > > Or you can use > :setlocal keymap=accents > > and use the dead-key prefixes defined in that keymap: apostrophe-e means > e-acute, backtick-a means a-grave, tilde-o (with a spacing tilde) means > o-tilde (with the tilde above the o), etc.: see > :view $VIMRUNTIME/keymap/accents.vim > :help 'keymap' > :help mbyte-keymap > > Of course, if you want to use an apostrophe followed by a vowel then, you > will have to either switch the keymap temporarily off beforehand (see > below), or else "break" the mapping, either by waiting for a timeout (by > default one second, see :help 'timeoutlen', but 'timeout' [q.v.] must be on > [not the default] for that) after the apostrophe, or by inserting some > "do-nothing" key-sequence after the apostrophe, for instance <Left><Right>. > To toggle between the keymap and your "normal" Portuguese keyboard (for > Insert-Replace and Command-line modes, and the operands of Normal commands r > f F t T ), use: > - in Insert and Command-line modes: Ctrl-^ > - in Normal mode: :let &imi = !&imi > see > :help i_CTRL-^ > :help c_CTRL-^ > :help 'iminsert' > :help 'imsearch' > I recommend to set 'imsearch' to -1 (not the default) in your vimrc, so / > and ? search commands use the same keyboard (your usual or the keymap) as in > Insert mode at any particular time. > > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > "In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable." > -- Winston Curchill, of Montgomery > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
