generate special character ö with shortcut in vim

Question

I want to press CTRL-; to generate the special character ö. I have tried to write this line in my .vimrc

inoremap <C-;> <C-K>o:

but nothing happens when I press CTRL-;. What am I doing wrong?

`vim` or `gvim`? In `vim` that mapping will hardly work — terminals don't have charcter ``. Should work in `gvim` — works for me. — phd, Mar 22 '22 at 12:23

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '22 at 12:40

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If you already have ö, why not use it directly?

inoremap <key> ö

Anyway, the core issue, here, is that the control character ^; doesn't exist. This means that TUI Vim, which cares about characters, not keys, can't see that Ctrl+; you pressed and thus can't do whatever you mapped to <C-;>.

I would suggest you find another mapping.

answered Mar 22 '22 at 12:40

romainl

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but it still does not work, when I use this mapping `inoremap CTRL-L; ö` all that appears is `^L` – Nighel Mar 22 '22 at 15:56
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That doesn't look like a Vim mapping at all. – romainl Mar 22 '22 at 16:45
This works as expected for me: `inoremap o:` – m_mlvx Mar 23 '22 at 07:35

generate special character ö with shortcut in vim

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