Is there a way to search inside the digraphs in Vim

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Is there a way to search inside the :digraph table in VIM ? the \is not working and my eyes are getting apart searching the glyphs I desire..

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '14 at 10:15

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try :h digraph-table there you can do search with / or ?

answered Oct 07 '14 at 10:15

Kent

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Yes I know, but it does not covers all glyphs – Enrico Pirani Oct 07 '14 at 12:46
Actually, it should cover all glyphs. Which ones are missing? – Christian Brabandt Oct 07 '14 at 12:55
Yes you're right. I was stopping reading before the multibyte `:h digraph-table-mbyte`. – Enrico Pirani Oct 07 '14 at 13:22
@user1435633 my understanding of your requirement is to **search**, instead of **reading**. if you are looking for some char, do a `/` and paste the char after the `/` to find it in that help doc. – Kent Oct 07 '14 at 13:32
My answer was not clear. I find out now the help page relative to the digraph table in which you can actually do a search with `/` . Thanks for your advice. – Enrico Pirani Oct 07 '14 at 14:01

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 07 '14 at 10:37

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You can capture the actual :digraph output in a scratch buffer via:

:redir @a | silent digraph | redir END | new +setl\ buftype=nofile\ bufhidden=wipe | put! a

answered Oct 07 '14 at 10:37

Ingo Karkat

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Thanks Ingo, this is a really useful snippet ! – Enrico Pirani Oct 07 '14 at 12:47

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 07 '14 at 12:48

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Besides the answers given, you can try my unicode-plugin You can then use the :Digraphs foobar to search for digraphs whose name match foobar

answered Oct 07 '14 at 12:48

Christian Brabandt

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

Combining Ingo’s accepted answer, Bill Odom’s answer on directing ex commands to a buffer, and Capturing ex command output from the Vim Tips Wiki produces the following snippet for your .vimrc.

function! TabDigraphs()
  redir => message
    silent digraphs
  redir END
  tabnew
  setlocal buftype=nofile bufhidden=wipe
  silent put =message
  setlocal nomodified
endfunction
command! TabDigraphs call TabDigraphs()

Is there a way to search inside the digraphs in Vim

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