On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:40:50 -0400
Doug <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> wrote:
On 08/31/2012 08:55 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I take it the official way to enter a euro symbol in vi/vim is AltGr+4.
> I find this works about 20% of the time.
Rather odd - alt-gr should be mapped to the right shift on a US keyboard
I believe, so holding down alt-gr and hitting 4 should be a reliable
event.
Is the problem vim specific and what is your locale set as ?
Why not create a Compose key? Then you get the € symbol by
hitting compose, then e then = . And a whole lot of other useful
things, like all the diacritical marks for the European languages,
other monetary symbols like £, ¥, ¢, the Spanish ¿ and ¡, the
German ß and even a Greek letter or two.
May be a vim problem. With a UK keyboard btw compose is shift-altgr so
shift-altgr (remove fingers) e = produces €
(and there are lots of other useful ones for accented symbols for © etc..)
Alan