Working with digraphs?

2009-02-14 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi, how are you all using digraphs? I have read :h digraph.txt and I know how to enter them but how do you find the digraph, if you only know the Character or maybe the decimal code number? I am using utf-8 encoding and I find it awkward and uneasy to scan the output of :digraphs for the desir

Re: Working with digraphs?

2009-02-15 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 14/02/09 21:42, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi, > how are you all using digraphs? I have read :h digraph.txt and I know > how to enter them but how do you find the digraph, if you only know > the Character or maybe the decimal code number? I am using utf-8 > encoding and I find it awkward and u

Re: Working with digraphs?

2009-02-15 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Tony! On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Tony Mechelynck wrote: [enter digraphs] > - I have the digraphs I use most committed to memory, for instance > -M (dash big-em) for — "em dash". So you must eventually haved scanned the digraphs manually? As I said, that is awkward within an utf-8 environment (I

Re: Working with digraphs?

2009-02-15 Thread Sean
> - For characters which I rarely need and which have no preset digraph > (such as the majority of CJK characters), I use the |i_CTRL-V_digit| > method directly, typing the Unicode codepoint in hex as ^Vu until > U+, or ^VUx after that (where the x's represent hex digits) -- > if neces

Re: Working with digraphs?

2009-02-15 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Sun, Feb 15, at 08:34 Christian Brabandt wrote: > > ok, so digraphs are not the best method for writing longer sets of > characters. For me, I like the use of digraphs (since I use them only > occasionally), I just dislike the way how to find the character you > are looking for > Just a th

Re: Working with digraphs?

2009-02-15 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Sun, Feb 15, at 10:15 Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, at 08:34 Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > > ok, so digraphs are not the best method for writing longer sets of > > characters. For me, I like the use of digraphs (since I use them only > > occasionally), I just dislike

Re: Working with digraphs?

2009-02-16 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 15/02/09 20:34, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Tony! > > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > [enter digraphs] > >> - I have the digraphs I use most committed to memory, for instance >> -M (dash big-em) for — "em dash". > > So you must eventually haved scanned the digraphs manually?

Re: Working with digraphs?

2009-02-16 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 15/02/09 20:57, Sean wrote: >> - For characters which I rarely need and which have no preset digraph >> (such as the majority of CJK characters), I use the |i_CTRL-V_digit| >> method directly, typing the Unicode codepoint in hex as ^Vu until >> U+, or ^VUx after that (where the x's

Re: Working with digraphs?

2009-02-16 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Agathoklis! On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 15, at 10:15 Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > > Just a thought, but if you use them occasionally and only a small > > subset, > > then you can probably create a list (of the ones you use most) and rely to

Re: Working with digraphs?

2009-02-17 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
Hi Christian, On Tue, Feb 17, at 12:03 Christian Brabandt wrote: > > Not bad! I have been thinking about it, and one could even implement a > custom completion function. You need to get > http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Index.txt and set the readfile() > expression according to the loca