I sometimes need to write text in other languages such as French, Spanish and occasionally German or Italian.
I would like to do this in Vim. Unfortunately I only have a US keyboard. Using Ctrl-K to enter the various digraphs becomes somewhat cumbersome for anything larger than a short paragraph. Unfortunately I am only able to type the US keyboard, so remapping the keyboard might be a better solution than entering digraphs in the long run but will not be painless.. And since I do not do this on a regular basis, I am unsure whether it's really worth going to all the trouble. I was thinking of writing the text without accents, tildes, cedillas, etc. using the letters on the US keyboard and then feeding the result to some advanced functionality of a spellchecker that would replace all the words that can only be spelled one way by their correctly spelled version - say French 'épeler" (to spell) can only be spelled this way.. there is no 'epeler' or 'èpeler' or 'êpeler'. On the other hand, for those words where the accent differs depending on the semantics such as French 'a' vs. 'à', the script/plugin would leave them untouched and - ideally - highlight them, thus leaving me with only a handful of manual corrections. Is there anything in Vim that does something like this? Or is there any other 'smart' way to achieve something like the above? Thanks cga
