On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:05:02PM EDT, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > > >I sometimes need to write text in other languages such as French, > >Spanish and occasionally German or Italian. ..snip.. > > > >I would like to do this in Vim. > > > >Unfortunately I only have a US keyboard. > > > > > > Have you considered EasyAccents.vim? > > http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=451
That's exactly the sort of thing I initially had in mind but since I've already spent some time getting familiar with the standard (?) Vim solution (:set keymap=) and it's a breeze to customize I'll probably stick with that. What I like abut the ":set keymap" solution is that if you wait a fraction of a second between "'" and "e" for instance Vim realizes that you want an apostrophe followed by an "e".. not an "e" with acute accent and moves the cusor to the next position.. Another way to achieve this is to map two apostrophes to the (single) apostrophe in your keymap description.. so you type two "'"'s in quick succession when you want an apostrophe rather than an accented letter.. But I find the former method more natural. Thanks all the same. Appreciate your help. > > It doesn't use the spelling checker in vim 7.0, but it accepts > a' > a` > a^ > a: > etc to generate accented characters. Easy to turn on and off, too: \eza > toggles. > For some bizarre reason .. something in my Vim setup .. I've never managed to get this '\' leader escape character to work. So for the vimspell plugin for instance I have to type the :* commands. > Regards, > Chip Campbell
