On 22/10/13 11:01, Anton Shepelev wrote:
Joao Miguel:
I use Vim in Portuguese [...]
How do you keep normal-mode commands working without
switching to English? Using mbyte-keymap?
I suppose you're joking? On a keyboard for any language using Latin
script, from Portuguese to Finnish and from Icelandic to Romanian,
typing ASCII is no problem at all. Even when some letters are normally
not used in that language, they are almost always still present on the
keyboard, if only for foreign proper names; and the "special characters"
such as [ ] { } | etc. may be unusual in _texts_ of that language, but
_programmers_ (and especially C programmers) speaking that language need
them, so they made sure they had access to them, if only with the help
of the AltGr key (the Alt key on the right side of the space bar, which
on most non-English keyboards is used to produce "strange" characters).
BTW, what I'm typing now is on the Belgian version of the AZERTY
keyboard layout, similar but not identical to what they use in France.
See http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/other/keybbe.htm for
details, and for how I have access to an almost incredible wealth of
characters thanks to the Shift and AltGr modifiers, used separately or
together, and to the concept of "dead keys" (modifier prefixes pressed
and released before using another key).
For the rare normal-mode commands which I don't find on my keyboard, or
which are too awkward for frequent use, I use the :map command with F
keys as the {lhs} (e.g. for the Ctrl-] constantly used when navigating
the help, I have
:map <F9> <C-]>
in my vimrc; otherwise it would be Ctrl-AltGr-$ which I know about now,
but it took me quite a long time to find that combination when I was
learning to use Vim).
Best regards,
Tony.
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