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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers help on vi (special characters) needed Post 302319405 by otheus on Monday 25th of May 2009 07:02:24 AM
Old 05-25-2009
You can use the :map commands. Vim understands UTF-8 and different file formats, and there are keymaps you can load with :set keymap=???, but for simplicity, you should be able to map your own key. Let's say you want to use CTRL-^ for the copyright character. First, you need to do
Code:
:set encoding=utf-8 fileencondings=

Then you can type the sequence
Code:
CTRL-V u 0 1 6 9

(no spaces here). If you are in text-mode vim (and not gvim), you will see a ? mark. Position the cursor over that question mark and type
Code:
:asc

On the status line, you will see:
Code:
<?> 361, Hex 0169, Octal 551

Bring this up in your HTML browser or whatever. If this isn't the character you expect, I don't know how to help.

Anyway, to map this to a keyboard character, say CTRL_^ you can do:
Code:
:map!  CTRL-VCTRL-^ CTRL-Vu0169

Now when you are insert mode, you can type CTRL-^ and you should see the ? mark. Do the :asc thing to make sure it's right. Finally, you can make an abbreviation so that typing (c) turns into this character:
Code:
:abbr (c) CTRL-Vu0169

That might be more intuitive in the long-run. If you need the sequence (c) without the abbreviation, you can type "(c)CTRL-V" and then a space, period, or whatever.

Note CTRL-V and CTRL-^ means holding down the Control key followed by V or ^ (often 6) or whatever.
 

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EVIM(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   EVIM(1)

NAME

       evim - easy Vim, edit a file with Vim and setup for modeless editing

SYNOPSIS

       evim [options] [file ..]
       eview

DESCRIPTION

       eVim  starts  Vim and sets options to make it behave like a modeless editor.  This is still Vim but used as a point-and-click editor.  This
       feels a lot like using Notepad on MS-Windows.  eVim will always run in the GUI, to enable the use of menus and toolbar.

       Only to be used for people who really can't work with Vim in the normal way.  Editing will be much less efficient.

       eview is the same, but starts in read-only mode.  It works just like evim -R.

       See vim(1) for details about Vim, options, etc.

       The 'insertmode' option is set to be able to type text directly.
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OPTIONS

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FILES

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       vim(1)

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