On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Vimers, > > In French, some capital letters must be accentuated. For exemple, one must > write À and not A, especially when at the beginning of a sentence. > > I could try to remember to hit "CTRL-k !A" in order to input that > character, but I'm always ending to forget that. So I go on the A, hit > z= and choose generally the first option which replaces A by À. > > It's no big deal, but if vim could help me to automate this, I would be > very grateful. > > So I'm imagining so kind of pesudo-code like this > > if detect A at the beginning of a sentence (not a line) > then replace A by À > > > But I don't know how to do it and where to put it. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Have a nice day, > Steve
It's dangerous, because in French, the letter A (even at the start of a sentence) is often (more often than not, I guess) the uppercase counterpart of unaccented a — and in that case it must not get an accent. So if you mapped _all_ start-of-sentence A's to À you would find yourself needing to correct many intances of À (and É and…) to remove those pesky accents. What you could do is use a keymap, $VIMRUNTIME/keymap/accents.vim maybe, or maybe an owncoded one, so that you could type just `A rather than Ctrl-K A!, and similarly just 'E instead of Ctrl-K E' etc. Lowercase French letters are available too, but one pair of important French characters is missing in the Accents keymap: œ (as in œil, œuf, bœuf, œsophage, etc.) and Œ (as in Œdipe). Even French typewriters used to lack them, but some "international" keyboards have them: on my AZERTY keyboard it's AltGr o without or with Shift, but as the Accents keymap lacks them you may want to define them in some owncoded keymap based on Accents — as oe and OE maybe. See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_make_a_keymap Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
