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Questions tagged [digraphs]

Digraphs is Vim's way to enter characters that cannot be entered by most keyboards.

See :help digraph.

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How can I type the alphabetic subscripts?

I want to type the subscript i as follows: What I have tried: I got to know how to type numerial subscripts, by following this documentation. [digit]s I search the local help doc (absolutely the same as the above) by :h digraphs and find…
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How can I be sure a digraph is not defined by Vim?

I am trying to enter a latin cross (✝, Unicode 271d) into a document. I can't find a pre-defined digraph for this. I am able to enter such a character with u271d or I can define a new digraph in my .vimrc like so: digraph \|- 10013. But…
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Inserting special characters by character code and by digraphs

I have VIM 8.2 with multi-byte support. I'm new to Vim and currently going through "Practical Vim" by Drew Neil. Tip 17 and Tip 18 talk about inserting special characters with character codes and by digraphs, so I decided to practice using this…
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i_CTRL-K does not insert digraphs when in Mutt inside tmux

I configured mutt to use vim as an editor to write emails (with set editor=vim in .muttrc), and I have noticed that when I am in tmux (with an empty .tmux.conf), the vim keybinding CTRL-K in insert mode, which is handy to insert digraphs, does not…
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How do you make a digraph containing a ¨?

When making a digraph, I can't seem use the ¨ symbol without getting an E39: Number expected. This error is there even when escaping it with a backslash.
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Digraphs Missing for Greek Letters

A co-worker built a version of gvim 9 that I'm running in the two environments below with the differing results: A VM that I have a VNC open to. Here the Greek letter digraphs work great. I'm using the Fira Mono Medium font. Another VM that I…
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Enable digraph only for certain characters

I have digraph enabled :set digraph I really like the digraph setting in vim, but I often find it changes my keystrokes to some foreign character without my intention. I can see that there are around 13.000 characters defined, and the chance of…
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How can I remove the default digraphs?

I like Vim’s digraph feature but I find the number of default digraphs overwhelming. Is there a way to clear all of these so that the only digraph definitions are the ones that I created myself (e.g. in my vimrc)?
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