On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:40:40PM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > >On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:32:33AM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > >>cga2000 wrote: > > > >[..]
> >This is weird .. I'm sure I replied to this and yet there's no trace > >of my reply anywhere. > > > >>>I'll probably use the dot '.' .. hope it doesn't clash with > >>>anything.. > >>> > >>>Or maybe there's a :digraph that would look good and yet not cause > >>>trouble in email, printouts, .. eg. > > > >[..] > > > >Thank you for your suggestions. > >>If you're using Latin1 or UTF-8, you may try: > >> > >>- Currency sign (decimal 164, ?, ^KCu) > >>- Middle dot (decimal 183, ยท, ^K.M) > >I did both: > > > >:set com+=fb: Cu > >:set com+=fb: .M > > > >.. entered via a Ctrl-V Ctrl-K followed by the digraph .. and they do > don't use Ctrl-V before the Ctrl-K. Just Ctrl-K followed by the > digraph. In each case you should see one character (a hollow bullet > with outgrowing teeth on the four diagonals, or a dot at mid-height) > appear as soon as you type the second character of the digraph. But if > 'encoding' is neither Latin1 nor UTF-8 these characters may or may not > exist. OK. I had tested both data entry syntaxes -- just Ctrl-K or Ctrl-V followed by Ctrl-K. I did that with the middle dot and I was getting an "invalid character" error message .. But then I was unsure how you were supposed to enter the character and figured that the problem was that I needed to enter a Ctrl-V before the Ctrl-K .. when in fact what probably happened was that I was doing something wrong .. inverting the digraph's two characters, maybe .. who knows. With your explanations above, I gave it another shot and this time everything works as advertised. My only problem now is that both looks very nice indeed and I'm not sure which one I am going to use. Also, first thing I did was a :set encoding=latin1 > >not seem to be recognized. When I reach the specified textwidth the > >text entered wraps to column 1. > > > >.. I also tried with asterisk '*' and the result is different and > >rather unexpected: When I reached the end of the first line, Vim > >automatically inserts an asterisk and a space in columns 1-2 before > >carrying over the word I started on the previous line. The strange > >thing about this is > looks like Vim is treating ' *' in columns 1-2 as the middle part of a > 3-part comment of this kind: > /* > * > * > * > */ > according to was already set in 'comments' and in particular > s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/ > > >that if I do a: > > > >:set com=fb:* > > > >.. instead of > > > >:set com+=fb:* > > > >this problem goes away (line 2 wraps to column 3 as expected). > > Without the + you set the option from scratch; with it you add to what > was already set. See ":help 'comments'". > Yes, that's what I meant. When I use '=' instead of '+=" everything else in "com" is wiped out .. so that's why I started suspecting that something else in my default "com" settings was causing this. I'll see tomorrow if I can figure it out. BTW .. I had such a mess in "set com?" at one point that I tried a: set com-=<garbage> .. Vim didn't complain .. but didn't do anything either .. Guess I'll have to play with this a little more to figure it out .. and read the ":h comments" help file as directed. Thank you very much .. nifty little tricks like this always make my day..!! cga
