Interactive digraphs

[ftonneau]

In a previous discussion about Vim-style digraphs:

Vim-like digraph functionality

One feature that I always liked in vim as a French speaker working with qwerty is the ability to input special characters directly in the buffer using digraphs. I decided to extract this functionality in a standalone command-line tool called digraph so it can be used directly in the shell or in kakoune through piping. I find it really useful when writing email in French. Since, as opposed to Vim, the use of digraphs is non-interactive, a placeholder character (#, but I intend on making this con…

vxid posted a link to a C program that can be used to convert text digraphs through a pipe. Aside from this link, there has been little progress on interactive digraphs for Kakoune.

Here is a plugin that tries to address this issue:

GitHub - ftonneau/digraphs.kak: Interactive digraphs for Kakoune

The plugin provides vim-like digraphs, but with improvements:

• 81 new symbols (including currency symbols and useful math/tech symbols such as Planck’s constant) are included, which brings the total of available symbols to 1305

• digraphs can be searched in Insert mode by digraph, unicode description, or hex value, and results are displayed along with their digraph and unicode point

• digraph conversion in Insert mode has the possibility of reinserting the last inserted symbol, of appending a postfix after the insertion, and of converting the last-typed word instead of the last-typed character pair

• a dig command, available in Normal mode, sweeps over the selection and converts each digraph in it to the corresponding symbol.

The README on GitHub gives more details and has a few examples of converted text.

[gspia]

Hi & thanks for this plugin!

One note about README/installation instructions: it looks like that e.g. the following works if you put it into your kakrc & if you use plug.kak (thus no need for manual installation nor extra directories):

plug "ftonneau/digraphs.kak" %{
        set-option global digraphs_path 'plugins/digraphs.kak'
        digraphs-enable-on <F5> <F6>
}