Tip #51: Entering german umlauts

To enter german umlauts (or any other of those weired
characters) not available on your keyboard use 'digraphs':

In insert-mode type for example:
    
     CTRL-K "a

     CTRL-K ^e

which gives an 'ä' and 'e' with a hat.

You can also set the digraph option:

    :set digraph (or :set dg)

With digraph option set you can enter

    " <BS> a

    ^ <BS> e

which gives the same result.

To get a list of currently defined digraphs type

   :dig[graphs]

For more information about defining and using digraphs refer to:

:help digraph.txt

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