On Wed, March 23, 2011 3:20 pm, Steve wrote:
> Hi !
>
> This is my first message on this list. I've been using vim for several
> years now but I'm far from mastering it (unfortunately). I often do
> translations from English into French (for Debian docs) and I use vim
> for that. I noticed that I often have to write quotation marks and until
> now I've been doing it manually, which is not very convenient. After
> reading some docs on vim, I figured I could use it's power to make my life
> easier. So here is what I'd like to do.
>
> In French, we do not write "word" or 'word', we write « word », with a
> non-breakable space after « and before ». Until now, I do:
>
> <c-k><<<c-k>NSword<c-k>NS<c-k>>>
>
> which is really not convenient. I'd like a function, say Guillemets(),
> which does that automatiquelly. I would then map it to a function key FN
> (or whatever else) and just call it in normal mode. Problem, I really
> don't have the necessary skills to do that.
>
> Anybody could help?
Does those two mappings help you?
:imap <expr> " getline('.')[col('.')-2]=~'\S' ? ' »' : '« '
:imap <expr> ' getline('.')[col('.')-2]=~'\S' ? ' »' : '« '
(the space inside the single quotes was inserted literally as non-breaking
space, e.g. by entering <c-k>NS).
regards,
Christian
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