[vox-tech] a vim question (and german)

[Micah Cowan]

Henry House writes:
 > On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 01:43:06PM -0700, Ryan wrote:
 > > On Saturday 10 August 2002 01:01 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
 > > > i have vim open in an xterm right this second, and want an umlat in my
 > > > document.
 > > >
 > > > what should i type?
 > > 
 > > compose " [a|o|u]
 > > 
 > > $,3u=(B $,3u=(B $,3u=
(B > > 
 > > compose is shift-menu on my keyboard, and X calls it MultiKey. You'll 
 > > probably have to map it.
 > > 
 > > It's usualy just menu on ttys.
 > 
 > You can also use vim's digraph feature, which is independant of the
 > terminal's eight-bit input mode. Hit control-k u : (letter u, colon) to get
 > $,3u=(B. The ex command :digraphs (with no args) should show you a list of
 > available digraphs.

None of those characters are showing up, here - Mutt didn't set the
encoding, so ASCII is being assumed in VM... just FYI...

-Micah