vim mappings for Hebrew

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 04:21:06PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012, Daniel Shahaf wrote about "Re: vim mappings for Hebrew":
> > :set keymap=hebrew
> 
> Indeed. Vim has a very nice feature where it can "emulate" a Hebrew
> keyboard for editing, i.e., you never have to switch to Hebrew using your
> normal mechanism, rather you stay in English mode, and just when you
> edit vim itself will insert Hebrew letters instead of English.
> 
> I have the following setup (you can put it in ~/.profile in VIMINIT, or
> in ~/.vimrc):
> 
> 	map! <F12> ^[:set invhk invrl^Ma 
> 	map  <F12> :set invhk invrl^M 
> 
> Note the ^M is a carriage return. What these mappings do is that F12,
> either in command or editing mode, will reverse the hebrew-keymap
> property (invhk), and reverse the screen direction (invrl).

" For UTF-8
set al=1488

" The above from Nadav, using printable characters
map! <F12> <esc>:set invhk invrl<cr>a
map  <F12>      :set invhk invrl<cr>


> 
> I can then edit and with F12 switch back and forth between editing
> Hebrew and English, never using the systems keyboard switching
> (shift-alt, or whatever).
> 
> BTW, I also have
> 	set guifont=heb8x13 
> 	set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-8

Is this still needed?

iso8859-8?

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