On 18/02/14 14:53, Prakash Dongare wrote:
For serious help about Vim, you'd better subscribe to the list — in
fact, you already did, since you're allowed to post — and then you can
set your list preferences to get every list post, or only digests. I
recommend "every post" for the list(s) you're really interested in.
You can write any key sequence without using a dead key, if you want, by
using mappings and keymaps, but of course you'll be limited to the
number of different keys present on your keyboard. I recommend to use
mappings when they are few, or present in any kind of file; keymaps,
when there are many of them, or they are used only in a limited number
of files.
Examples:
For all helpfiles, and any files using tags; also to terminate
abbreviations:
:map <F9> <C-]>
:map! <F9> <C-]>
For files in Cyrillic alphabet: the example shows how to do it for HTML
files by means of a modeline:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<!--: vim: set keymap=russian-phonetic et ts=8 sts=8 :-->
<title>whatever</title>
</head><body>
...etc.
</body></html>
where $VIM/vimfiles/keymap/russian-phonetic.vim is a keymap I wrote
myself. In fact it does use dead keys, but that's because I like them. I
suppose I might have written it differently without multibyte {lhs}es.
See
:help map.txt
:help 'keymap'
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_make_a_keymap
:help modeline
From a philosophical point of view, however, Vim is a modal editor: any
key which changes the mode could be seen as a kind of "extended dead
key". Or conversely, a dead key could be seen as a limited kind of
mode-key, which changes the mode but only for the next key, similar to
what ctrl-O does (setting Normal mode for only one command) in Insert
mode, see ":help i_CTRL-O" (without the quotes). IOW, "philosophically",
dead keys are never very far away in Vim.
Best regards,
Tony.
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