How to replace UTF-8 chars?

[mikek88]

Lately, I've been pasting copied text into micro and the double-quotes get pasted as UTF-8 characters (0xE2809C and 0xE2809D). I want to replace all of these with the regular double quote character (ASCII 0x22). Can this be done? Can I set it up as a keybinding?

[matthias314]

You can use the command replaceall [“”] \". You can bind it to a key with a command like

bind F3 'command:replaceall [“”] \"'

By the way, if you have difficulties typing a character, you can copy it inside a buffer and then paste it when you are in the command line.

[mikek88]

Yeah, that was my problem of not being able to know how to reference the character other than stating its hex code.

That's great. Thank you.

[mikek88]

Can that replaceall [“”] \" command be given a name, such that I can call it from micro's command line as well? Like, I'd type Ctrl-e and then glurk or something to execute the replaceall?

[matthias314]

You can add the following to your init.lua:

config = import("micro/config")

function glurk(bp)
    bp:ReplaceCmd({"[“”]", "\"", "-a"})  -- replace with "-a" flag
end

function init()
    config.MakeCommand("glurk", glurk, nil)
end

Even without the new command defined inside init, you can call glurk via a keybinding:

bind F3 lua:initlua.glurk

[mikek88]

Great. Thanks again.