From: "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mapping german umlauts
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:28:51 +0200
> Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> [...]
> > PS:
> > There is still a question open to me, Tony...
> > On a german keyboard you have to press Ctrl-AltGr-9 to jump to
> > a tag under the cursor, which is originally Ctrl-].
> >
> > This again is bad finger-Yoga (at least for my fingers...;)
> >
> > This is one reason why I wanted used the umlauts in normalmode to act
> > as "[","]","{" and "}" (no one needs gemran umaluts in normal mode,
> > so I will loose nothing...)
> >
> > Unfortunately Ctrl-umlaut-a (umlaut-a is mapped to ] now...) does not
> > work as tag-inator. Is this one of these
> > certain-special-keys-cannot-be-used-in-mappings problem, is this due
> > to the "nnoremap" (instead of nmap...), which forbids later
> > re-remapping, do I have to remap this sepeartely or am I simply to
> > stupid ? ;)
> >
> > Keep hacking II !
> > mcc
>
> Mapping something to ] doesn't map anything to Ctrl-], you have to do it
> separately.
>
> On my Belgian keyboard on SUSE Linux, CTRL doesn't work with any
> nonalphabetic
> printable key (in particular, it doesn't work with "]"). There are two
> solutions:
>
> a) Use the mouse (double-clicking a help hyperlink activates it)
>
> b) Use a mapping.
>
> I use
>
> :map <F9> <C-]>
>
> but of course you can use any {lhs} that suits you if you don't like F9.
> Since
> this key has no counterpart you might for instance map ß to it, since no one
> needs the eszett in Normal mode either.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
>
Hi Tony,
things are becoming better !
Using the umlauts for "{","[","]" and "}" makes things a lot easier
and far more convenient.
But there are still things I dont understand...as always...sorry...
I did the following:
" LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
noremap <Char-252> <C-]>
" LATIN CAPITAL A WITH DIAERESIS
noremap <Char-196> }
" LATIN CAPITAL O WITH DIAERESIS
noremap <Char-214> {
" LATIN SMALL A WITH DIAERESIS
noremap <Char-228> ]
" LATIN SMALL O WITH DIAERESIS
noremap <Char-246> [
which works in normal mode. In insert mode the umlauts appears as
umlauts as it should be. But: WHY?
If I understood the according help correctly "noremap" is a short
form of "no remap". And it is not bound to any mode -- and
"_n_noremap" (for example) is bound to normal mode.
Therefore (according to my obviously wrong logic...;) the above
mapping would apply also to insert mode. But it does not (and it
should not, since the umlauts are needed in insert).
More mysteriously: Using "nnoremap" -- as I think it would make the
above mappings only to apply in normal mode -- for the above mappings
breaks everything: no "{","[","]" or "}" at the umlaut-keys in normal
mode.
The other thing what I tried was to map "every" ( "every" = what I
could find and thought it would be nice to have ) combination of
"something" and the "{","[","]","}" to combinations with the umluat
keys in the appropiate mode.
I wrote:
noremap <Char-228->Char-228 ]]
noremap <Char-246-Char-246> [[
noremap <Char-246-Char-228> []
noremap <Char-228-Char-246> ][
which works with the "mysterious charme" as described above as far as
I could test it (normap <-> nnoremap)
Then I did:
vnoremap <a-Char-246> a[
vnoremap <a-Char-228> a]
vnoremap <i-Char-246> i[
vnoremap <i-Char-228> i]
vnoremap <a-Char-214> a{
vnoremap <a-Char-196> a}
vnoremap <i-Char-214> i{
vnoremap <i-Char-196> i}
for the motions in visual mode -- and it fails totally.
Again I got stuck.
Thanks a lot for any help in advance ! :O)
Keep hacking!
mcc
