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warriormole
warriormole

Reputation: 159

how to get the digraph key or unicode from a special character

I am configuring tmux & powerline. I would like to change the default separators in tmux status line. I managed to figure out where to do it, however I could not get the special character that I want.

I want to type, in Vim, a left/right pointing triangle that spans the whole line-height, but the only thing I could find is a small triangle (unicode : 25B6,25BA,25C0,25C4...)

There is a big right pointing triangle already in a powerline configuration file, which I could copy and paste, but I want to know its unicode and want a left one. Is there a way to get the unicode from the symbol in Vim or anywhere else?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 914

Answers (3)

adiog
adiog

Reputation: 764

You may add a permanent preview of current character in your status line (see :h statusline), eg.:

:let &statusline = &statusline . "\ [%03b\ 0x%B]"

Upvotes: 1

SheetJS
SheetJS

Reputation: 22925

You can either use ga in command mode or :ascii on the command line (even though it says ascii, it shows information for general encodings)

Upvotes: 2

jwodder
jwodder

Reputation: 57610

You can get the codepoint value of a character in Vim by positioning the cursor on the character in question and typing either ga or :ascii.

Upvotes: 3

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