Ondřej Ševčík wrote:
Is it posible to change vim controls to be independent on input
characters? I use english and czech keyboard and they have different key
layout. Can I translate keys in command mode? I need to ů have same
meaning as ; becouse they are on same key. It's really hard to use Vim
with czech keyboard, but i need to write thesis in czech of course.
Thanks for advices.
Best Regards.
Ondra
you can test the following in your vimrc, before setting them:
'encoding'
if &encoding == 'latin1'
":language messages"
if v:lang =~? '^en' || v:lang == 'C'
":language ctype"
if v:ctype =~? '\%(iso-8859-1\|latin1\)$'
then depending on the result, either set a 'langmap' (to translate into
English the Czech characters input by your Czech keyboard driver) or a
'keymap' (to use an English-language keyboard to input Czech).
'keymap' assumes that your keyboard driver is in English and translates the
keypresses in Insert mode but not in Normal mode: e.g., with my
"$VIM/vimfiles/keymap/russian-phonetic_utf-8.vim", when I type "Vsego
horo%sego" in Insert mode I get "Всего хорошего"; but in Normal mode my "Vim
commands" remain in Latin (except the operand of the r command, the search
pattern to the / command, etc.). The keymap can be toggled on or off by means
of Ctrl-^ in Insert mode or by toggling the 'iminsert' option between 1 and 0.
'langmap' assumes that your keyboard driver is in some foreign language (the
help gives an example for Greek) and translates Normal-mode commands, but not
Insert-mode text, into English. IIUC, in that case it is not foreseen to set
it on in Insert-mode also in order to input English text.
see
:help expr-option
:help :language
:help v:var
:help 'keymap'
:help 'langmap'
:help i_CTRL-^
etc.
Best regards,
Tony.
