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I have a file with the character ã (lowercase a + combining tilde). Encoding and fileencoding are both utf-8. ga shows
<a> 97, hex 61, octal 141 <~> 771, Hex 0303, Octal 1403
(but with the actual combining tilde in the <>) and g8 shows
61 + cc 83
Searching with /a\%u0303 works fine.
Searching for just \%u0303 gives E486 Pattern not Found.
Can I search for just the combining character without also searching for the base character?
Type in normal mode /<ctr-v>u0303
/ - start search
<Ctr-v>u - init utf-8 code input
0303 - hex code combine character.
:he unicode
Also :he mbyte-combining and :he utf-8-char-arg the last one covered case with commands like f, F and so on.
/<ctr-v>u0303type in normal mode/- start search<Ctr-u>v- init utf-8 code input0303- hexonal code combine character. Works fine for me. – Alex Kroll Jun 9 '15 at 15:21:g/<Ctrl-V>u0303also worked from the command line. Please add as an answer so I can accept it. Much appreciated! (Vim docs at vimhelp.appspot.com/insert.txt.html#i_CTRL-V_digit ) – cxw Jun 9 '15 at 16:06