[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I want to write a macro, function or what else, which ensures, that
no german umlauts (äöüÄÖÜ) or the "sz" (ß) will ever occure in any
file written with vim. It does not matter, if these charactes will
appear while typing but they should never and under no circumstances
be saved to disk. Best solution however would be, if they were
changed "on the fly" to their replacements:
umlaut a ä -> ae
umlaut o ö -> oe
umlaut u ü -> ue
umlaut A Ü -> Ae
I guess you mean Ä -> Ae
umlaut O Ö -> Oe
umlaut U Ü -> Ue
"sz" ß -> sz
I did some experiments, which had worked under some circumstances and
did not under others.
But I need something, which does the replacements under any
condition.
Keep editing!
mcc
Method I: will remove all umlauts in all files, even preexisting ones (if any)
at write-time.
function RemoveUmlauts() range
let l:range = a:firstline . ',' . a:lastline
exe l:range 's/ä/ae/g'
exe l:range 's/ö/oe/g'
exe l:range 's/ü/ue/g'
exe l:range 's/ß/sz/g'
exe l:range 's/Ä/Ae/g'
exe l:range 's/Ö/Oe/g'
exe l:range 's/Ü/Ue/g'
endfunction
autocmd BufWritePre * %call RemoveUmlauts()
Method II: will remove umlauts only as you type them. Anything preexisting
will remain untouched.
inoremap ä ae
inoremap ö oe
inoremap ü ue
inoremap ß sz
inoremap Ä Ae
inoremap Ö Oe
inoremap Ü Ue
These two solutions are not exclusive of each other: they can be applied
together.
Note that the official transliteration of the eszett is not sz but ss:
upcase("ß") is "SS" and, in de_CH locales, the eszett is not used (other than
for "archaic" look, sometimes together with a Fraktur font); ss is used in its
stead everywhere.
Best regards,
Tony.
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