Questions tagged [multibyte]
The multibyte tag has no usage guidance.
8
questions
1
vote
1
answer
23
views
convert byte index to character index
Some function in vim return a byte index instead of a character index (e.g. match()).
If the matched string contains multibyte characters this byte index differs from the character index.
Does vim ...
- 545
0
votes
1
answer
119
views
Get visually selected text - weird behavior when last selected char is multi-byte
I have made a simple function to echo the visually selected text. The function is simplistic as I am only interested in max one-line selection. The problem is, if the last character of the visual ...
- 235
1
vote
3
answers
386
views
Easy way to get character before cursor character in insert mode?
I am trying to write a function for insert mode mapping in which I want to get the character before the cursor character. For texts that are purely ASCII, this is easy, since its byte index is the ...
- 830
0
votes
1
answer
213
views
neovim switch keymapping
I am in the process of getting myself to start using neovim instead of vim/vi which has been favorite editor for over 30 years.
For my current use, I need to set keymapping to type characters that ...
- 13
4
votes
0
answers
93
views
Space Error when typing Korean
when typing Korean, I quite frequently have a space error, and it seems happening randomly.
Suppose I am trying to write a sentence "I do not know" in Korean.
When I hit the space key after 'not' to ...
- 41
5
votes
2
answers
549
views
Reliably get the character at a byte index in a string
I'm doing some string processing in vimscript. I obtained a byte index for a character in the string and now want to obtain the character at that byte index.
For single-byte charsets (like latin1) ...
- 8,510
0
votes
1
answer
59
views
Why does backslash-escaping a CJK character cause a very-magic regex match to fail?
My understanding of very-magic regexes is that you can escape any character outside [A-Za-z0-9_] with a backslash to make it match literally. However, I don't see that behaviour with CJK characters. ...
- 894
2
votes
1
answer
1k
views
How can I search for Unicode characters by hex code in very magic regexes in vimscript?
I am working on UTF-8 support for my editorconfig-core vimscript plugin. I have hit a strange snag.
This is in official GVim 7.4 Win32. I would like to get this working on 7.4, rather than ...
- 894