On 30/05/11 09:58, Jürgen Krämer wrote:

Hi,

Beren Sanders wrote:
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Tim Chase<[email protected]>  wrote:
On 05/29/2011 06:43 PM, Beren Sanders wrote:

Is there an easy standard way to make accented characters match searches
for
their normal counterparts?

For example, I obtain "é" by typing "<CTRL>-k ' e" and I would like to set
it up so that searching for "Ajoute" will match both "Ajoute" and
"Ajouté".

It sounds like you might want Vim's equivalence classes:

  /Ajout[[=e=]]

which you can read about at

  :help /[[=

Note the caveat about Latin1 vs. other encodings.

-tim

Thanks Tim. Do you (or someone else) know someway of making the
equivalence class [[=e=]] the default interpretation of an 'e' in the
search string? In other words, although it is great that [[=e=]]
matches all the versions of 'e', it involves typing seven characters
instead of just one.


I don't know of any way to make equivalence classes the default
interpretation, but you can always define mappings to expand a letter
into its equivalence class, e.g.:

   cnoremap<expr>  e getcmdtype() =~ '[?/]' ? '[[=e=]]' : 'e'

If you really need an 'e' you have to press Ctrl-V before 'e' then.

Regards,
Jürgen


Of course, if you want to do it that way, you'll have to do it for every equivalence class you'll possibly encounter, e.g. for French:

a       [[=a=]]         aàâ
A       [[=A=]]         AÀÂ
c       [[=c=]]         cç
C       [[=C=]]         cÇ
e       [[=e=]]         eéêèë
E       [[=E=]]         eÉÊÈË
i       [[=i=]]         iîï
I       [[=I=]]         IÎÏ
o       [[=o=]]         oô
O       [[=O=]]         OÔ
u       [[=u=]]         uùûü
U       [[=U=]]         uÙÛÜ
y       [[=y=]]         yÿ
Y       [[=Y=]]         YŸ

not counting foreign characters as seen in e.g. Dvořak, Białystok, Timişoara, etc.

This will still not find œ (as in œil, œuf, bœuf, œsophage, etc.) when searching for oe; similarly for Œ and the rarer (in French) æ Æ (as in Lætitia, lætare, cæcum, etc.).


Best regards,
Tony.
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