On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:19:54PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > On 20 Feb 2003 at 10:41, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > > > Hello Andy. > > I think that there is more list members having the same question: what is > > an... an... 'umlaut'? > > Either one of : ? ? ? (in German), or the diacritical mark ? used in > forming those letters. (Also called "diaeresis", especially when it > marks the letter as pronounced separately [as in Spanish or French] > rather than marking a change of pronunciation [as in Swedish or > German].)
Just looking for advice - what is the best way to insert accent characters when you don't have a european keyboard? (ie. assuming i'm just using vim with a standard US or UK keyboard) It's something that's bothered me for a while. I vaguely recall that MS Word 95 had a way to do it by hitting ctrl-[:'/\^] and then the vowel, but it'd be good to be able to do the same in vim. (Note: I haven't used word properly for a very long time, so my memory may be corrupted) tjc. -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
