Comments on: Replacing those pesky smart quotes in VIM

By: Aditya Nakhare

Aditya Nakhare — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:44:10 +0000

Thanks a lot.

By: Kaolin Fire

Kaolin Fire — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:22:31 +0000

And to find out what character something is if it’s not showing you (i.e. if your vim is actually showing you the curly-quotes instead of the hex values), you can type g8

Or :set statusline=%b\ 0x%B
And possibly :set laststatus=2 to make that visible

((from http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Showing_the_ASCII_value_of_the_current_character ))

And if you need to set the full unicode value instead of the two-byte hex value, it’s ctrl-v u—so ctrl-v u 201c, for instance.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:54:08 +0000

Thanks a lot for writing a short notice on this finding and for explaining the background (btw: the smart quotes are not MS specific – in my case they came from OpenOffice!).

Luckily, your blog gets indexed by google

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:08:27 +0000

Oh, you’re my hero! Thanks for writing this up!

By: thanks

thanks — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:50:49 +0000

exactly what i needed

thanks!

By: p1

p1 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:31:09 +0000

Thanks a lot!! found this after a lot of googling!

By: Patrick Berkeley

Patrick Berkeley — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:13:12 +0000

Thanks for this. Although I don’t use vim it’s nice to see your rendition in perl.

By: Marc St-Jacques

Marc St-Jacques — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:48:14 +0000

Thank you. You’re probably the only site in cyberspace that addresses this directly Perusing through the vim help files can be hell sometimes.