Axel wrote:
> I often use the :digraph command to find foreign language characters.
> But looking for a certain character sometines is like finding
> a needle in the haystack. Would it be possible to color-code
> the three colums of :dig's output?
Finding a character is hard. I suppose some clever highlighting
would help. I wondered about this and have come up with a script
to show the :dig output in a scratch buffer. I got lazy and have
not implemented a proper syntax highlighting scheme, but instead
took the opportunity to experiment with the new 'colorcolumn'
feature of Vim 7.3.
Put the following in a file, for example, dig.vim.
In Vim, enter this command to source the file:
:so dig.vim
" Create a scratch buffer with :dig output, highlighted.
function! s:Dig()
set nomore
redir => output
silent dig
redir END
set more
new
setlocal buftype=nofile bufhidden=hide noswapfile
setlocal colorcolumn=4,16,28,40,52,64,76
put =output
g/^$/d
endfunction
command! Dig call s:Dig()
When you want to see the :dig output, enter this command:
:Dig
A command like this can set the colours:
:hi ColorColumn guifg=snow guibg=seagreen
The column highlighting goes a little weird with some of the
characters, but it seems reasonably ok.
John
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