{"id":3282,"date":"2010-06-05T05:23:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T05:23:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:54:02","slug":"entering-special-characters-in-vi-vim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"Entering special characters in VI\/VIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had an issue with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%87\">c with cedilla<\/a> character and therefore needed to enter it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yolinux.com\/TUTORIALS\/LinuxTutorialAdvanced_vi.html\">VI<\/a>. Was using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secure_Shell\">SSH<\/a> to log on to a Linux-server with no other editors available so it was no option to use the character map to get the c-cedilla. After having spent some time trying various Google-searches I found a description on how to enter special characters on the <a href=\"http:\/\/vim.wikia.com\/wiki\/Entering_special_characters\">Vim wikia<\/a>. Entering diagraphs using ctrl-k was the solution to my challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had an issue with the c with cedilla character and therefore needed to enter it in VI. Was using SSH to log on to a Linux-server with no other editors available so it was no option to use the character map to get the c-cedilla. After having spent some time trying various Google-searches I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14324,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/14324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}