I'm trying to find a way to map German umlaut keys (Ä,ä,Ö,ö,Ü,ü).
A simple shortcut like this won't work:
inoremap <c-ö> <Esc>
Nothing happens when I hit ctrl+ö.
Does anyone know a solution to this?
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4Perhaps this answer helps? stackoverflow.com/a/21389290/5260921– cbaumhardtFeb 23, 2016 at 2:15
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It helps.. Though the answers make me sad.. :'-|– RotaretiFeb 23, 2016 at 2:31
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I understand, I have been there too :( I settled to use QWERTY instead of QWERTZ layout, which has many benefits for programming...– cbaumhardtFeb 23, 2016 at 2:56
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2faq1 and faq2– Christian BrabandtFeb 23, 2016 at 10:55
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1@le0m, inside Vim I use digraphs (in insert mode press Ctrl + K, then e.g. o:), and inside regular Linux environment for writing mails or so I use a keyboard shortcut (GNOME compose key)– cbaumhardtFeb 23, 2016 at 12:46
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Vim (though I cannot attest if this is true for every build and version) actually only handles valid ASCII control codes.
This is why when you press Ctrl + M, Vim actually gets a special "control code" (0D in this case), while there is no such code for Ctrl + ,, so it cannot be mapped.
There is an interesting discussion on that very subject here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/Ym6D-kWIsyo
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Actually, you'll find a very similar answer here: stackoverflow.com/a/16748339/154480 Oct 6, 2016 at 0:57