Insert VIM digraphs with ZSH.
The plugin uses VIM digraphs. The most common ones used for German and Italian are:
| code | Glyph | Description |
|---|---|---|
| a` | à | Grave-accented a (là) |
| i` | ì | Grave-accented i (così) |
| o` | ò | Grave-accented o (però) |
| e` | è | Grave-accented e (è) |
| e' | é | Acute-accented e (perché) |
| a: | ä | Umlauted a (männer) |
| o: | ö | Umlauted o (öl) |
| u: | ü | Umlauted u (Tschüss) |
| ss | ß | Eszett (Straße) |
To insert one code, write the two characters and press Ctrl-K, the characters will get translated to their relative glyph.
To install the plugin put in your .zshrc.local the following
entry:
source $path_to_repo/zsh-digraphs.shsubstituting $path_to_repo with the path where you've downloaded this repo.
You can generate an up-to-date configuration using the upstream vim
repository, simply execute the update_zsh_digraphs.sh script to generate
a new zsh-digraph.sh.
You can also configure your digraphs, put them in the user_digraphs.h
and regenerate the configuration using the provided
update_zsh_digraphs.sh script.
From time to time I need to write words on the command line (e.g. If I am taking ephemeral notes and I don't want to open VIM).
That is perfectly fine when I'm writing in English, but not when I'm writing in Italian (which has accented vowels such as è, é, ù, ò and ì) or German which has Ezset (ß) and Umlaut (ü, ö, ä). And I don't want to switch from USA layout to localized ones.
The solution could be to use the UTF8 input provided by the System, but I would need to remember the conter-intuitive Unicode number.
The VIM input system is really easy to memorize. Therefore this script adapt VIM input to ZSH.