diff runtime/doc/various.txt @ 13359:81c348d40312 v8.0.1553

patch 8.0.1553: cannot see what digraph is used to insert a character commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/5f73ef8d20070cd45c9aea4dc33c2e0657f5515c Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue Feb 27 21:09:30 2018 +0100 patch 8.0.1553: cannot see what digraph is used to insert a character Problem: Cannot see what digraph is used to insert a character. Solution: Show the digraph with the "ga" command. (Christian Brabandt)
author Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
date Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:15:06 +0100
parents acd7eaa13d2b
children 02b3f719eacb
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-*various.txt*   For Vim version 8.0.  Last change: 2018 Feb 25
+*various.txt*   For Vim version 8.0.  Last change: 2018 Feb 27
 
 
 		  VIM REFERENCE MANUAL    by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -40,23 +40,35 @@ CTRL-L			Clear and redraw the screen.  T
 
 :as[cii]	or					*ga* *:as* *:ascii*
 ga			Print the ascii value of the character under the
-			cursor in decimal, hexadecimal and octal.  For
-			example, when the cursor is on a 'R':
+			cursor in decimal, hexadecimal and octal.
+			Mnemonic: Get Ascii value.
+
+			For example, when the cursor is on a 'R':
 				<R>  82,  Hex 52,  Octal 122 ~
 			When the character is a non-standard ASCII character,
 			but printable according to the 'isprint' option, the
-			non-printable version is also given.  When the
-			character is larger than 127, the <M-x> form is also
-			printed.  For example:
+			non-printable version is also given.
+			
+			When the character is larger than 127, the <M-x> form
+			is also printed.  For example:
 				<~A>  <M-^A>  129,  Hex 81,  Octal 201 ~
 				<p>  <|~>  <M-~>  254,  Hex fe,  Octal 376 ~
 			(where <p> is a special character)
+
 			The <Nul> character in a file is stored internally as
 			<NL>, but it will be shown as:
 				<^@>  0,  Hex 00,  Octal 000 ~
+
 			If the character has composing characters these are
 			also shown.  The value of 'maxcombine' doesn't matter.
-			Mnemonic: Get Ascii value.  {not in Vi}
+
+			If the character can be inserted as a digraph, also
+			output the two characters that can be used to create
+			the character:
+			    <ö> 246, Hex 00f6, Oct 366, Digr o: ~
+			This shows you can type CTRL-K o : to insert ö.
+
+			{not in Vi}
 
 							*g8*
 g8			Print the hex values of the bytes used in the