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I want to write some text in Spanish in which accents are used frequently, such as ó for which I have to write \'{o}. I have seen that in vimtex they have defined for example `a to convert into \alpha in math mode, but in normal mode I would like to convert it to for example à.

I also tried the command :ab 'o \'{o} but this only works with whole words, so not when it is part of a word. The same problem occurs when using snippets with UltiSnips.

How can I easily and quickly type an accented letter?

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    for what its worth: you dont have to write the braces
    – Bort
    May 27, 2016 at 12:57
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    You could just write ó and tell latex which encoding you are using, such as \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} you do not have to use the ascii markup for accents unless you want to.
    – David Carlisle
    May 27, 2016 at 12:58
  • Ok thank you Bort and @David, that is even easier!
    – agold
    May 27, 2016 at 13:09

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You could just write ó and tell latex which encoding you are using, such as 

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

you do not have to use the ascii markup for accents unless you want to.

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    I knew you liked answering vim questions :)
    – cmhughes
    May 27, 2016 at 13:22
  • You don't have to use accent commands, and you shouldn't if you want hyphenation, right? Or am I living in the 20th century?
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    May 27, 2016 at 13:46
  • @Gilles: I got a conference template with these accent commands, therefore I thought it would be necessary.
    – agold
    May 27, 2016 at 14:10
  • @Gilles even in the 20th century it made no difference to the typeset result whether you use \'o or ó (you do want to use T1 font encoding in either case to get hyphenation (\usepackage[T1]{fontenc})
    – David Carlisle
    May 27, 2016 at 15:14
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    @agold if you have a keyboard like mine without the accented letters it's still easier to type \'o than remember what arcane combination of keystrokes produces ó
    – David Carlisle
    May 27, 2016 at 15:16
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For what it's worth you could achieve this with:

:imap 'o \'{o}
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