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To use the Spanish layout one has to remap an accent like the one over o: ö to : in Normal Mode. How can I do this in my .vimrc? I have to handle the accent only, not a character; I have no idea how to approach this task.

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  • Do you mean insert mode? You dont want to lose : in Normal mode.
    – D. Ben Knoble
    May 27, 2019 at 13:42
  • Sure I don't want to loose colon in Normal Mode. I want to keep it, because in Spanish layout it is stolen by an umlaut. I want to catch half a character (umlaut) and map it back to colon. All in Normal Mode, yes.
    – Alexey Orlov
    May 27, 2019 at 14:19
  • Take a look at help langremap
    – D. Ben Knoble
    May 27, 2019 at 14:24
  • Already taken :) . I don't need a character. I need just an umlaut. Half a character, that is.
    – Alexey Orlov
    May 27, 2019 at 14:25
  • Depends on how youre entering the umlaut (or tréma) then. If it’s at the OS level, you might be stuck (and need to fix it at that level)
    – D. Ben Knoble
    May 27, 2019 at 14:26

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Open vim. Enter insert mode (i), then type Ctrl-V (<C-V> in vim notation) and hit your umlaut key. That should give you the key that vim sees, if any. You can map that key by

nnoremap <umlaut> :

Where <umlaut> you enter via the Ctrl-V as above.

If that method doesn’t produce a distinct key, but instead waits at another level (the terminal emulator, keyboard, window manager, OS, &c.) then you’ll need to fix it at that level somehow.

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  • We are almost there :) . After <C-V> umlaut shows all right. On Esc it disappears.
    – Alexey Orlov
    May 27, 2019 at 17:00
  • When you hit the umlaut normally does it show the umlaut while waiting for the next key?
    – D. Ben Knoble
    May 27, 2019 at 17:02
  • Yes, it does. Probably, it still does not count as a complete character.
    – Alexey Orlov
    May 27, 2019 at 17:21
  • @AlexeyOrlov my guess as well. Somebody will need to show you how to map that key at a higher level to do the right thing. Do you have a colon somewhere else on the keyboard?
    – D. Ben Knoble
    May 27, 2019 at 17:27

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