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| VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Ron Aaron (and Avner Lottem) |
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| Hebrew Language support (options & mapping) for Vim *hebrew* |
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| The supporting 'rightleft' functionality was originally created by Avner |
| Lottem. <alottem at gmail dot com> Ron Aaron <ron at ronware dot org> is |
| currently helping support these features. |
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| Introduction |
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| Hebrew-specific 'keymap' values are "hebrew" and "hebrewp". |
| Hebrew-useful options are 'delcombine', 'allowrevins', 'revins', 'rightleft' |
| and 'rightleftcmd'. |
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| The 'rightleft' mode reverses the display order, so characters are displayed |
| from right to left instead of the usual left to right. This is useful |
| primarily when editing Hebrew or other Middle-Eastern languages. |
| See |rileft.txt| for further details. |
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| Details |
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| + Options: |
| + 'rightleft' ('rl') sets window orientation to right-to-left. This means |
| that the logical text 'ABC' will be displayed as 'CBA', and will start |
| drawing at the right edge of the window, not the left edge. |
| + 'keymap' ('kmp') sets keyboard mapping. use values "hebrew" or "hebrewp" |
| (the latter option enables phonetic mapping) |
| + 'delcombine' ('deco'), boolean, allows one to remove the niqud or |
| te`amim by pressing 'x' on a character (with associated niqud). |
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| + 'rightleftcmd' ('rlc') makes the command-prompt for searches show up on |
| the right side. It only takes effect if the window is 'rightleft'. |
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| + Encoding: |
| + Under Unix, ISO 8859-8 encoding (Hebrew letters codes: 224-250). |
| + Under MS DOS, PC encoding (Hebrew letters codes: 128-154). |
| + You should prefer using UTF8, as it supports the combining-characters |
| ('deco' does nothing if UTF8 encoding is not active). |
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| + Vim arguments: |
| + `vim -H file` starts editing a Hebrew file, i.e. 'rightleft' is set and |
| 'keymap' is set to "hebrew". |
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| + Keyboard: |
| + The 'allowrevins' option enables the CTRL-_ command in Insert mode. |
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| + CTRL-_ in Insert mode toggles 'revins'. |
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| CTRL-_ moves the cursor to the end of the typed text. |
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| Note: On some keyboards, CTRL-_ is mapped to CTRL-?. |
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| + Keyboard mapping while 'keymap' is "hebrew" (standard Israeli keyboard): |
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| q w e r t y u i o p |
| / ' ק ר א ט ו ן ם פ |
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| a s d f g h j k l ; ' |
| ש ד ג כ ע י ח ל ך ף , |
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| z x c v b n m , . / |
| ז ס ב ה נ מ צ ת ץ . |
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| The 'keymap' keyboard can also insert niqud and te`amim. To see what |
| those mappings are, look at the keymap file hebrew.vim etc. |
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| Typing backwards |
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| If the 'revins' (reverse insert) option is set, inserting happens backwards. |
| This can be used to type Hebrew. When inserting characters the cursor is not |
| moved and the text moves rightwards. A <BS> deletes the character under the |
| cursor. CTRL-W and CTRL-U also work in the opposite direction. <BS>, CTRL-W |
| and CTRL-U do not stop at the start of insert or end of line, no matter how |
| the 'backspace' option is set. |
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| There is no reverse replace mode (yet). |
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| If the 'showmode' option is set, "-- REVERSE INSERT --" will be shown in the |
| status line when reverse Insert mode is active. |
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| When the 'allowrevins' option is set, reverse Insert mode can be also entered |
| and exited via CTRL-_. |
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| Pasting when in a rightleft window |
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| When cutting text with the mouse and pasting it in a rightleft window |
| the text will be reversed, because the characters come from the cut buffer |
| from the left to the right, while inserted in the file from the right to |
| the left. In order to avoid it, toggle 'revins' (by typing CTRL-? or CTRL-_) |
| before pasting. |
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| Hebrew characters and the 'isprint' variable |
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| Sometimes Hebrew character codes are in the non-printable range defined by |
| the 'isprint' variable. For example in the Linux console, the Hebrew font |
| encoding starts from 128, while the default 'isprint' variable is @,161-255. |
| The result is that all Hebrew characters are displayed as ~x. To solve this |
| problem, set isprint=@,128-255. |
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