vim mappings for Hebrew

[Avraham Rosenberg]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 05:32:52PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 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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Thank you and to Nadav and Daniel for the very prompt and helpful answers.
Both set keymap=hebrew and set al=1488 work beautifully. I wonder what is
the difference between them...In general, I would like to know where from
you got this wealth of information about the editor. Can you recommend some
book?
....I guess Nadav left the mappings concerning iso8859-8 encoded files in
his .vimrc, from the old days. Nowadays it makes more sense to iconv any
occasional iso8859 file to utf8...
Cheers, Avraham

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