Displaying terms as single character unicode symbols in VIM?

Question

Does VIM have a way to show symbols as characters?

So lambda can be displayed as λ (yet keep its underlying ascii text) for example.

Something like emacs pretty-symbols

Yes, you may want to look at the conceal option : :h conceal. — nobe4, Jan 13 '17 at 07:36

Rich · Answer 1 · 2017-01-13T13:50:14.717

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You can do this with Vim syntax's conceal feature, which allows you to hide matched text or replace it with a single character:

:syntax match keyword "\<lambda\>" conceal cchar=λ
:set conceallevel=1

For more details, see:

:help conceal
:help conceallevel
:help concealcursor

edited Jan 13 '17 at 13:50

answered Jan 13 '17 at 09:35

Rich

Thanks for the starting point, but this doesn't isolate lambda, eg: lambdafoobar turns into λfoobar – ideasman42 Jan 13 '17 at 10:06
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Probably syntax keyword might be better – muru Jan 13 '17 at 10:14

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