Here's what the according macro would look like. Pressing F2 would
replace the space under the cursor by " " :

:map <F2> cw&nbsp;<ESC

Any suggestions ?

Hi,

I'm using Vim to edit static XHTML pages.

I have to (manually) check for non-breakable spaces in my text, and
eventually replace simple spaces by the following character sequence:

&nbsp;

Usually, when I perform the same operation over and over in a text, I do
it once, and then repeat it in command mode using [.]. But I can't
figure out how to do this here.

Here's what the according macro would look like. Pressing F2 would
replace the space under the cursor by "&nbsp;" :

:map <F2> cw&nbsp;<ESC

... except this also deletes the word after the cursor, which is annoying.

Any suggestions ?

Cheers from South France,

Niki Kovacs

I have to (manually) check for non-breakable spaces in my text, and
eventually replace simple spaces by the following character sequence:

&nbsp;