unicode.vim

Given that we're in a vim story, I'll reply with a little vim tip… Vim has digraph support built-in¹, so for your example the first few digraphs are In, p*, >=, h*. It is also how I typed the ellipsis on the first line of this comment(,.), and the superscript footnotes(1S and 2S). A more complete Unicode solution for vim is available in Christian Brabandt's excellent plugin². ¹ https://vimhelp.org/digraph.txt.html ² https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim

Christian Brabandt's excellent unicode.vim¹ can be a useful addition to the features mentioned in that article. Among its functionality is a better alternative to `ga` that also presents the name the character. For example, compare `ga` with unicode.vim's version: <> 128572, Hex 0001f63c, Octal 373074 '' U+1F63C Dec:128572 CAT FACE WITH WRY SMILE &#x1F63C; /\%U1f63c "\U1f63c" Edit: Imagine there is an unfiltered colorful cat peeking out between the <> and '' in the above text. ¹ https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim

> I hit :w so reflexively and regularly in working files that swap files only occasionally saves my butt I'm definitely one of those people too, and while I don't disable swap files I do depend heavily on `persistent-undo`. It literally changed the way I work when it was introduced. To some extent I treat it as an extension to swapfile functionality as it also operates across broken sessions(intentional or not). > [...] the user experience with them Christian Brabandt's Recover.vim¹ is a huge improvement for those few times when you do actually want to work with a swap file. General recommendation to poke around in his other repositories too, as he has written a heap of extremely useful vim things. Edit: Especially unicode.vim² which improves `ga` no end, csv.vim³ which feels like magic, NrrwRgn⁴ for fellow emacs refugees, and ... ¹ ht

What are you meaning by “hover”? All I know of is ga (a.k.a. the misnamed :ascii), which tells you the decimal, hex and octal for the Unicode scalar values, but doesn’t give you a name. Oh, are you meaning https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim?

I was operating under the impression that a single asterisk would muck up the Markdown parsing on HN. Turns out I'm half wrong it seems. Some work. With the italicised tests below, the first has a prepended asterisk, the second has an appended one. * Test Test* Test Test Test * I think I just started using daggers because U+2020 was super easy to remember and to avoid Markdown issues and the habit has stuck. You don't by any chance use Vim, do you? I use the Unicode plugin[0] by Christian Brabandt in Vim to quickly search for Unicode characters. You can use vim-plug[1][2] by Junegunn Choi, for instance, to install it and keep it updated or just install it manually yourself. call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged') Plug 'https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim' call plug#end() Then within vim type :UnicodeSearch dagger to search for d