On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 12:08:16PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > We already have support for input methods. These were originally aimed > at Asian language, but should work for anything. > > Implementation of an input method is tricky and involves user > preferences. Making something Vim-specific has the disadvantage that > you can't use it in other programs. Makes sense. I understand that a particular plugin (which may exist somewhere) would be more appropriate or method which @meine mentioned.
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 04:59:21PM +0200, meine wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 11:32:21AM +0530, Manas wrote: > > I wanted to know that will it be interesting to add a dedicated support > > for typing unicode characters in Vim? Like we have insert and replace > > modes, will it be useful to have a "unicode-mode" which when activated > > can enable a typist to type in unicodes at ease and allow them to type > > those characters continuously? Current implementations of using <C-v> for > > unicodes and <C-k> for digraphs become tedious for typing continually. > > Probably you can set this in your .vimrc: > > `autocmd set digraph` > > I had the reverse problem a while ago in mutt, where vim is my editor -- > making a typo, hitting <backspace>, typing the right character and > ending up with Japanese katakana or hiragana. After some searching, I > found out that I had a line in my .vimrc that triggered this when > writing an email. Your wish is the reverse of this, although I don't > know if the line above is syntaxually right. But you just can find out. > > As with my line that only worked when composing an email in mutt, you > could set it in your .vimrc only to work for specific file types, etc. > The original line I had is > > `autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead /tmp/mutt* set noautoindent filetype=mail > wm=0 tw=78 digraph nonumber nolist` > > Since I am a search-copy-paste sysadmin, I can't tell you what to change > for your purposes, but there is plenty of info on the Net. > Thanks a lot! Probably will end up using this. On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 07:07:12PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: > On 2021/06/26 23:02, Manas wrote: > > Hi folks, I was thinking about the following idea. > > As Rust introduced usage of non-ascii characters as identifiers > ---- > You do realize perl has had that for over a decade? I didn't know that. -- Manas -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20210701150738.yxygtzvbs473ukqq%40nitro-5.
